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Barbara Hepworth reconsidered / editor, David Thistlewood.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forum series ; v.3Publication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press and Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1996.Description: ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780853237709
  • 0853237700
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Contents:
Contested significance in the work of Barbara Hepworth : absolutist and relativist interpretations / David Thistlewood -- Barbara Hepworth : the odd man out? Preliminary thoughts about a public artist / Penny Florence -- Carving and the engendering of sculpture : Adrian Stokes on Barbara Hepworth / Alex Potts -- 'Miss Hepworth's stone is a mother' / Anne M. Wagner -- Hepworth and her critics / Katy Deepwell -- Barbara Hepworth and science / Anne J. Barlow -- Hepworth and Gabo : a constructive dialogue / Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder -- From constructivism to reconstruction : Barbara Hepworth in the 1940s / Chris Stephens -- What is left unsaid / Penelope Curtis -- The essential Hepworth? Re-reading the work of Barbara Hepworth in the light of recent debates on 'the feminine' / Claire Doherty -- Casts and continuing histories : material evidence and the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth / Alun R. Graves -- Barbara Hepworth speculatively perceived within an international context / Emma E. Roberts
Summary: Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered is the first large-scale critical reappraisal of this artist for more than twenty years. This volume presents a range of interpretations of her work, together with the most comprehensive bibliographic survey of Hepworth literature to date.
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Proceedings of a critical forum held in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Hepworth : a retrospective, presented at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, 14 Sept. - 4 Dec. 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-257) and includes indexes.

Contested significance in the work of Barbara Hepworth : absolutist and relativist interpretations / David Thistlewood -- Barbara Hepworth : the odd man out? Preliminary thoughts about a public artist / Penny Florence -- Carving and the engendering of sculpture : Adrian Stokes on Barbara Hepworth / Alex Potts -- 'Miss Hepworth's stone is a mother' / Anne M. Wagner -- Hepworth and her critics / Katy Deepwell -- Barbara Hepworth and science / Anne J. Barlow -- Hepworth and Gabo : a constructive dialogue / Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder -- From constructivism to reconstruction : Barbara Hepworth in the 1940s / Chris Stephens -- What is left unsaid / Penelope Curtis -- The essential Hepworth? Re-reading the work of Barbara Hepworth in the light of recent debates on 'the feminine' / Claire Doherty -- Casts and continuing histories : material evidence and the sculpture of Barbara Hepworth / Alun R. Graves -- Barbara Hepworth speculatively perceived within an international context / Emma E. Roberts

Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered is the first large-scale critical reappraisal of this artist for more than twenty years. This volume presents a range of interpretations of her work, together with the most comprehensive bibliographic survey of Hepworth literature to date.