Anthony Caro - Seven Decades
Dieter Schwarz
Annely Juda Fine Art, ISBN 9781904621881,
Hb, 128 pgs, 25 x 28cm
74 ills
Acqn. 29535
In Stock
£30.00
Hb, 128 pgs, 25 x 28cm
74 ills
Acqn. 29535
In Stock
£30.00
A new exhibition catalogue of works by Sir Anthony Caro, spanning seven decades of his career including early pieces from the 1950s through to his last works in 2013. In the 1950s, Caro's work was dominated by bronze figurative sculptures but by the early 1960s a dramatic change in direction emerged. Caro decided to make the innovative move to place his sculptures off the plinth and onto the floor. Caro began to use steel after a visit to New York in the 1960s left him with a sense of needing to experiment and 'do something different'. Through the 1970s and 1980s Caro continued constructing works from steel and experimenting with painted surfaces. His Table Pieces of this time continued to challenge the restrictions of the plinth further by hanging off the edge or reaching all the way to the floor. Additionally, in the 1990s his works began to involve the assemblage of different combinations of steel components with found industrial objects being recognisable as part of the sculptures. Although he continued to work extensively in steel, in the 2000s and 2010s Caro also continued to explore and experiment and his works included a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and in his last sculptures, coloured Perspex.