Antony Gormley by Antony Gormley
An authoritative survey of the work of Sir Antony Gormley OBE RA, accompanying his Royal Academy exhibition.The sculptor Antony Gormley has become a household name, thanks to prominent public installations and major solo shows. Awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, he was knighted in 2014. From the Angel of the North (1998) to the hundred cast-iron life-size human figures that populate Crosby Beach in Liverpool, his works often explore the human body and its relationship to the space it inhabits.
In this authoritative survey, the leading scientist and writer on cosmology Priyamvada Natarajan explores the role of space and light in Gormley's work. Michael Newman places Gormley within the British sculptural tradition, while Jeanette Winterson OBE adds her personal response to Gormley's sculpture. Martin Caiger-Smith introduces this body of work, exploring the roots of Gormley's practice, and the role that public sculpture can play in the twenty-first century. This book accompanied an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (21 September to 3 December, 2019).
Martin Caiger-Smith is Head of the MA Curating the Art Museum program at the Courtauld Institute in London. In his prior roles as Head of Exhibitions and Acting Director of the Hayward Gallery, he organized major exhibitions that showed internationally, including retrospectives of Francis Bacon (1998), Roy Lichtenstein (2004), and Dan Flavin (2006). He writes frequently on art, photography, and architecture, and is the author of Tate Modern Artists: Antony Gormley (2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912520305 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912520303 |
| Title | Antony Gormley |
| Author | Antony Gormley |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Year published | 2019-12-17 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
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