From:
john pitt <jrpitt01@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:51:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject:
books for students
Some time back Simon asked for recommendations for books for students.
One is Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art by Evelyn Silber, Thames and Hudson,
1996 ISBN 0-500-09261-3.
Gaudier-Brzeska was one of the first direct carvers of stone, following up
on Epstein and Eric Gill in the UK. A Frenchman, he was kiled in the First
World War at 23 - and left behind a corpus of work that is unrivalled.
There is a biography of him by HS Ede, Savage Messiah, which has been made
available in paperback - and I think was the basis of a film. Ede was a
curator at the Tate, London, in the 1930s on and collected modern art before
it bacame fashionable. He later retired to Cambridge and created Kettle's
Yard, which has many Gaudier-Brzeska pieces and much more besides, and is
well worth the visit if in the UK.
Gaudier-Brzeska influenced Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth among others in
the UK.
Best wishes John
http://www.incisiveart.com
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