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Item Number: 115145
Title: HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA : The Social Life of Sculpture
Author: Wood, Jon
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781906593438
Description: Bristol: Sansom & Company , 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 160pp. illus., some in color. Summary: Jon Wood, who writes extensively on modern sculpture, argues that the life and work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska should be seen not only as inextricably connected, but also as a crucial example of how sculpture can be born out of dynamic social contexts, performing important functions within the operations of the avant-garde and associated artistic groups. Gaudier and his work made in London between 1911 and 1914 provide a fascinating case study for a new understanding of the ways in which art, people and ideas come together. The book looks in detail at his relations with Sofia Brzeska, Brodzky, Fry, Lewis, Hulme and Pound, along with Gaudier’s early association with Middleton Murry and the journal Rhythm, with particular attention to how his portraiture functioned as a means of affiliation within this literary circle. There are chapters on the Omega Workshops; Gaudier’s small-scale sculpture for T E Hulme’s Frith Street Salon and how they related to Jacob Epstein; and on his relationship with Ezra Pound, the ‘Hieratic Head’ commission, and how Gaudier’s ‘image’ was fashioned by Pound’s writings, as opposed to those of Roger Fry, Horace Brodzky and, of course, H S Ede. (^Forthcoming^)
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