
Garth Evans Sculpture
Beneath the Skin
Ann Compton(Editor)
Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Published on 25. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-78130-004-6 (ISBN)
Description
Garth Evans is a sculptor as capable of evoking intimacy and simplicity as he is of dealing with the monumental and the timeless.
This complete survey of Garth Evans' unique career is long overdue. It reveals a wealth of innovative and powerful work, much of it previously unseen in print. As narratives of British sculpture are reconsidered, Evans is emerging as one of the most creative and influential artists to bridge the generation of Antony Caro and Philip King with that of Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Alison Wilding and Bill Woodrow.
Garth Evans was born in Manchester in 1934 and settled in the USA at the midpoint of his career. He has exhibited widely in Europe and America since the early 1960s, and his work is represented in major public and private collections in Australia, Brazil, Portugal, USA and UK, including the Arts Council Collection, Leeds City Art Galleries, the British Museum, the V&A and Tate.
Evans has been the recipient of numerous awards as well as holding a number of distinguished teaching positions. Since 1988, he has taught at the Studio School in New York City where he is head of sculpture.
This investigation into Evans' hugely varied, visually eventful and challenging practice explores connections across geographies and timeframes as well as contextualizing major changes and new departures in his work.
This complete survey of Garth Evans' unique career is long overdue. It reveals a wealth of innovative and powerful work, much of it previously unseen in print. As narratives of British sculpture are reconsidered, Evans is emerging as one of the most creative and influential artists to bridge the generation of Antony Caro and Philip King with that of Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Alison Wilding and Bill Woodrow.
Garth Evans was born in Manchester in 1934 and settled in the USA at the midpoint of his career. He has exhibited widely in Europe and America since the early 1960s, and his work is represented in major public and private collections in Australia, Brazil, Portugal, USA and UK, including the Arts Council Collection, Leeds City Art Galleries, the British Museum, the V&A and Tate.
Evans has been the recipient of numerous awards as well as holding a number of distinguished teaching positions. Since 1988, he has taught at the Studio School in New York City where he is head of sculpture.
This investigation into Evans' hugely varied, visually eventful and challenging practice explores connections across geographies and timeframes as well as contextualizing major changes and new departures in his work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
258 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 275 mm
Width: 235 mm
Weight
1224 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78130-004-6 (9781781300046)
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Person
Ann Compton (ed.) is the originator and Project Director of the digital research project Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 (sculpture.gla.ac.uk). She has written widely on British painting and sculpture, particularly of the twentieth century, and her publications include The Sculpture of Charles Sargeant Jagger (2004). She is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow and a Visiting Scholar at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Prior to moving into research, Compton worked as a curator at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the University of Liverpool.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Penelope Curtis Introduction
Jon Wood The Sculpture of Garth Evans: Jon Wood in conversation with the artist
Richard Deacon Localized changes of condition
David Hulks Breakdown: analysis of a crisis in the work of Garth Evans
Rhona Warwick Closing the Gap: Garth Evans and the interstitial spaces between decision and execution
Anna Lovatt The Migration of Meaning: Garth Evans' Sculpture of the 1980s
Michael Brenson Drama of desire and disorder: the Yaddo Drawings of Garth Evans
Leila Philip Geography of the Imagination: biography of a studio
Ann Compton In the beginning...
Notes
Garth Evans Archival texts
Chronology
Bibliography
Exhibitions
Author Biographies
Penelope Curtis Introduction
Jon Wood The Sculpture of Garth Evans: Jon Wood in conversation with the artist
Richard Deacon Localized changes of condition
David Hulks Breakdown: analysis of a crisis in the work of Garth Evans
Rhona Warwick Closing the Gap: Garth Evans and the interstitial spaces between decision and execution
Anna Lovatt The Migration of Meaning: Garth Evans' Sculpture of the 1980s
Michael Brenson Drama of desire and disorder: the Yaddo Drawings of Garth Evans
Leila Philip Geography of the Imagination: biography of a studio
Ann Compton In the beginning...
Notes
Garth Evans Archival texts
Chronology
Bibliography
Exhibitions