NEW THREE-VOLUME SET OF BOOKS
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Since the mid-1950s when he first announced himself as a young sculptor
to be reckoned with, Anthony Caro has explored a vast range of sculptural
possibilities, testing limits and exploring new ideas about the nature of
the art form. The Caro pendulum has swung between extremes of linearity and
robustness, abstractness and allusion. He has countered his mastery of line
and transparency with investigations of our responses to mass and perception
of interior and exterior, even experimenting with literally enterable
sculptures. He has made rigorously abstract constructions, intimate
table-based pieces, monumental constructions like metaphorical architecture,
complex multi-part cycles of narrative works and much more. Yet,
notwithstanding the range and variety of his work, there are also common
threads that run through it all, from the beginning of his career to the
present.
The three volumes in this set, each by a different critic, examine the
various aspects of Caro’s evolution individually, tracing the permutations
of different themes – narrative, volume and mass, line and openness –
throughout his work, over time. Each volume is independent and explores
different territory, but cumulatively, by tracing these dominant themes,
they provide new insight into his achievement. Published by Lund Humphries,
October 2009. Each volume hardback, 280x240mm, 152 pages, incl. 80 colour,
10 b&w illustrations - £30 or £60 for the set
Mary Reid:
Anthony Caro: Drawing in Space
Karen Wilkin:
Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior
Julius Bryant:
Figurative and Narrative Sculpture
