Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography.When contemporary American women sculptors are discussed, a number of significant artists come to mind - Louise Nevelson Noun 1. Louise Nevelson - United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988) Nevelson , Nancy Graves Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939-October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometimes filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon. Early life and studies Graves was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. , Beverly Pepper Beverly Pepper is a modern sculptor, and abstract painter. She was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in New York City, New York, U.S., and educated at the Pratt Institute (from 1940) and the Art Students League of New York. , Louise Bourgeois  This article or section reads like a and may need a .Please help [ to improve this article] to make it in tone and meet Wikipedia's . , among others. However, in England one name is foremost, Barbara Hepworth. This book is an exciting pictorial record of her life and works from her early figurative work through geometric and organic abstraction to her internationally acclaimed large-scale post-war work. Originally conceived as a very personal diary, this book treads a line bEtween a family scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. and a catalogue raisonne of Hepworth's sculpture. The 359 illustrations include photographs of the artist's children, studio glimpses, pages from exhibition catalogs, and well over 100 examples of her work. While very different in format from most books about artists, this small volume is curiously compelling reading, and the reader will come away with unusual insight into the life of an important twentieth-century artist. Recommended for high school and college levels. |
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