British commissioner: Lilian Somerville.

Selection committee: Sir Philip Hendy, Alan Bowness, Roland Penrose, Sir Herbert Read, J M Richards and Sir John Rothenstein.

Works by Ceri Richards, Robert Adams and Hubert Dalwood were shown in the British Pavilion. A catalogue was published by The British Council. No ISBN. Catalogues (Dutch and French only), with essays on the artists by John Russell, J P Hodin and Norbert Lynton, and for the Paris edition with a foreword by Jean Cassou, were published to accompany the showings in Delft and Paris. No ISBN numbers.

Works by each artist were subsequently toured as separate exhibitions.

Further reading
Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895-1996, edited by Sophie Bowness and Clive Phillpot, The British Council, London 1995. ISBN 0 86355 283 8

www.britishcouncil.org/biennale/pages/venice_biennale.html

 

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Glossary

  • 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.