The first major retrospective of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the UK for twenty years opens at Tate Modern in November 2015. Calder was one of the most popular American artists of the 20th century.
A new and comprehensive analysis of the expansion of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and the United States from 1900 to 1945. Well-known artists such as Brancusi, Arp, Tatlin & Duchamp are covered alongside less familiar sculptors to provide a full picture of the diverse development of sculpture in this important period.
Penelope Curtis reimagines the life of her grandmother Nora, a painter whom she never knew but whose works she grew up with. Bridging three generations and spanning a century, her ambitious debut novel also investigates the relationship between her father and his fellow biologist Maria de Sousa.
Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue considers Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II.
"In The Pliable Plane, curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculpture infiltrated architectural thought over the post-war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking – a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines. Surveying a series of walls – carved, cast, applied, imagined, and even conceptual – in such places as bomb shelters, caves, war memorials, and public buildings, Curtis introduces a cast of renowned and lesser-known practitioners who defined the three-dimensional conception of the years 1945 to 1970. With close readings of the work and lives of Henry Moore, Anni Albers, Frederick Kiesler, Jorge Oteiza, and Mary Martin, among others, Curtis’s fluid and perspicacious history encompasses the developments of wartime production, the discovery of the Lascaux Caves, and the rise of relief art. Turning away from familiar pairings and dichotomies, it considers spaces and surfaces of coalescence and influence. Curtis compels us to understand the wall as support as much as partition, arguing for the centrality of this very pliability to the entwined development of both sculpture and architecture."
Eine umfassende Werkübersicht gibt einen fundierten Überblick über 25 Jahre künstlerischer Tätigkeit. Jede Arbeit wird fotografisch dokumentiert und in ihrem Kontext erläutert. Dieses Standardwerk, das Layout besorgte der Künstler, ist quasi ein Catalogue Raisonné.