A CHANGING WORLD 50 YEARS OF SCULPTURE FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL COLLECTION
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WITTGENSTEIN AT THE CINEMA ADMIRES BETTY GRABLE 1965 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) P848 © (c) Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by DACS 2015.
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CURVED FORMS WITH RED AND YELLOW 1946 Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 – 1975) P316 © Bowness, Hepworth Estate
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KERROW 1971 Denis Mitchell (1912 – 1993) P3885 © copyright The Artist's Estate
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AXE-HEAD TORSO 1980 William Turnbull (1922 – 2012) P3881 © (c) Estate of William Turnbull. All rights reserved, DACS 2015
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STANDING FIGURE WITH ARMS SIDEWAYS 1956/57 Kenneth Armitage (1916 – 2002) P290 © The Artist's Estate
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STILL LIFE 1978 Tim Head (1946 – ) P3699 © The Artist
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THREE STUDIES OF THE COCK 1951 Bernard Meadows (1915 – 2005) P273/5 © copyright The Artist
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EBB 1994 Boyd Webb (1947 – ) P6226 © Boyd Webb. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.
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BEAST XXII 1959 Lynn Chadwick (1914 – 2003) P337 © copyright The Artist
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NRTTA IV (RHYTHMIC DANCE) 1979 Tim Scott (1937 – ) P3874 © The Artist
Works selected by Diana Eccles and Joanna Gutteridge were added to the exhibition Forty Years of British Sculpture to form this exhibition. The show was first mounted on the occasion of HM The Queen’s State Visit to Russia in 1994 and comprised 37 sculptures, together with works on paper, from the British Council collection and charted the development of British sculpture since 1939. A catalogue was published, in an English and Russian edition, to accompany the exhibition with an introductory essay by Professor Norbert Lynton, and biographical and bibliographical notes on the artists; ISBN 086355 256 0 and ISBN 086355 257 9. The exhibition toured until 1996.
Collection Artist(s)
- Robert Adams
- Kenneth Armitage
- Reg Butler
- Sir Anthony Caro
- Lynn Chadwick
- Tony Cragg
- Michael Craig-Martin
- Hubert Dalwood
- Richard Deacon
- Barry Flanagan
- Tim Head
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Shirazeh Houshiary
- Anish Kapoor
- Richard Long
- David Mach
- Bernard Meadows
- Denis Mitchell
- Henry Moore
- David Nash
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
- Tim Scott
- William Turnbull
- Boyd Webb
- Alison Wilding
- Bill Woodrow
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.
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Sculpture
A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.