From Jacob Epstein to Sarah Lucas, this magnificent book explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years. Including works by varied artists such as Frederic Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, and Damien Hirst, 《MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE》 highlights the dialogues between British and international sculpture, examines the importance of the country's landscape as a location and medium, and looks at the perennial choice faced by the sculptor between figuration and abstraction. Sculpture has changed dramatically in the last century. This compelling book documents these seismic shifts.

President's Foreword

Preservation Partner's Statement

Acknowledgements

Curators' Preface

British British Sculpture Sculpture

Penelope Curtis

Catalogue

with entries by Penelope Curtis

Monumenta[ising Life and Death

Let There Be History:

Epstein's BMA House Sculptures

Sarah Crellin

The Cenotaph

Catherine Moriarty

Theft by Finding

Looking Around at Leisure:

Sculptors and the British Museum

Adrian Locke

Adam

Stone, Sex and Empire:

Direct Carving and 'British' Sculpture

Sarah Victoria Turner

The Establishment Figure

Authority Figures

Martina Droth

Ceramics and the

Influence of Craft

'Plastic Art in Its Most Abstract Essence

Pottery and Art in the Interwar Years

Simon Ford

Hepworth and Moore

The Centre of Modern Sculpture:

Some Thoughts on Hepworth and Moore

Arie Hartog

Environmental Construction

On the Status of the Space Frame

Jeffrey Steele

Early One Morning

Anthony Caro, 'Early One Morning'

Alex Ports

The Persistence of.

British Landscape

From Land Art to the Anthropocene

Joy Sleeman

The Absence of a Mother Tongue

Alastair Rider

Towards Sculpture as Image

The Rise of the Object:

Dispatches from the War on Form

Jon Thompson

In Search of the Ordinary

GiUick, Opie, Turnbu[[ (Opie, Giitick)

Mark Wilsher

Value Systems

British British Sculpture Sculpture

Keith Wilson

Artist Contributions

Appendices

The Dissemination of Commemorative

Statues of Queen Victoria

Jennifer Powell

Selected Bibliography and Resources

Ann Sproat

Endnotes

Lenders to the Exhibition

Photographic Acknowledgements

Index