PUBLICATIONS

Illustrated commentary and essays on the life and work of Michael Ayrton, particularly coinciding with the major commemorative exhibition which was show in Birmingham in January-February 1977.
Richard Barnes honours John Bell’s sculptural work in this 191-page chronicle of assembled diaries, papers, drawings and archival material.
This book surveys Caro’s free-standing, floor-based, constructed, abstract sculptures from 1960 to the present.
Gagosian Gallery exhibition publications. Two volume stiff card covered catalogues with pictorial french-fold wraps.  Housed in original publisher’s cardboard slipcase.  Volume One documents Caro’s Park Avenue Series. Volume Two is the catalogue accompanying a show of Caro’s work in Venice at Museo Correr.
Volume 1 of the Gagosian Gallery exhibition publications from Anthony Caro’s exhibition in 2013. Stiff card covered catalogue with pictorial french-fold wraps. Volume One documents Caro’s Park Avenue Series.
This landmark publication is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the artist’s achievements to date, as seen through a wealth of fascinating archival and contemporary sources. It exclusively brings together selections from his previously unpublished correspondence with critics, including Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, and his fellow artists.
This indispensable reference book includes comprehensive, updated lists of Chadwick’s exhibitions, the public collections he is represented in, and a full biography, alongside the fully illustrated complete catalogue of his sculpture.
Geoffrey Clarke: a sculptor’s materials’ is the first monograph to address the full range of this artist’s work, from stained glass to sculpture, jewellery to textiles, land art to medals.
‘Geoffrey Clarke RA’ exhibition catalogue. Exhibition held at The Fine Art Society, London in 2000.
Signed copy of Robert Clatworthy: Sculpture and Drawings including superb illustrations.
This volume focuses on four distinct periods of Cragg’s development – his early use of natural elements in assemblage and stacked sculptures; shapes assembled from found plastic fragments; works involving large-scale found plastic and wood wall assemblages, house-shaped constructions and assembled wood-object floor works; and vessels in cast bronze, iron, plaster and blown glass.
A study of Cragg’s sculpture providing a visual survey of work dating from the early 1970s to the present day.
Chris Stephens explores the ideas and attitudes that determined the development of Dalwood’s organic works
This book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist’s work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration.
For more than four decades, the sculptural oeuvre of the internationally renowned artist Richard Deacon (*1949) has masterfully circled around elementary questions of sculpture and how it is perceived. In doing so, the British artist is drawn to extreme solutions. Text is in English and German.
Exhibition catalogue of Richard Deacon’s sculptures at the Malaga Centre of Arts, December 2012 – March 2013.
Collection of ideations and artworks put together by Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic for the Kalemegdan Bridge.
Collection of high quality drawings and photographs documenting Richard Deacon’s work.
Catalogue of Richard Deacon’s 2005 exhibition, The Size Of It.
catalogue of sculptures by Barry Flanagan from 2001 – 2008.
This in-depth book details Elisabeth Frink’s career from 1984 to her death in 1993, including a catalogue raisonné of her sculpture since 1984. Hardback book with 310 illustrations, 111 in colour.
Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture is a catalogue raisonné and a celebration of the work of this most popular English artist, documenting and illustrating all her sculpture from the late 1940s until 1984.
A book on George Fullard (1923-73), exploring the critical context of his works.
Deluxe German edition of Naum Gabo’s published in 1957, with protective card envelope. Includes original lithograph and special magnifying glass in the back. 305x240mm, 203 pages, 136 colour and B/W photographs.
Accompanying the first extensive presentation of Naum Gabo’s sculptures, paintings, drawings and architectural designs to be held in the UK for over 30 years, this book draws together some of the most definitive works by the acclaimed constructivist accompanied by incisive texts highlighting the key themes of his practice and his age.
Collection of extraordinary artworks by Andy Goldsworthy, who for the last fourteen years has worked almost exclusively with the materials he finds in the outdoor environment.
96-page documentation of Gormley’s 2006 exhibition Breathing Room. Text in English and French.
This handsomely produced book was published to coincide with a retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. As well as showing the sculpture, the extensive selection of illustrations includes many of Hall’s working drawings and finished works on paper, revealing his skill as a draughtsman and the great importance of drawing in his practice.
This lavishly illustrated monograph is devoted to the work of the outstanding modern sculptor, Barbara Hepworth. The book includes 227 monochrome plates and four full-page colour plates of sculpture executed in stone, concrete, wood, and metal, and a selection of drawings. Herbert Read discusses the significance of her development and achievements up to the present. A comprehensive bibliography is also included.
This book presents a full analysis of Gertrude Hermes’ sculptural oeuvre. Jane Hill provides a full account of the artist’s life in the context of her career as a sculptor. Featuring over 140 images, this book redresses the imbalance and creates a new and fresh perspective on the immortal female artist of the twentieth century.
Catalogue of British pop artist, Allen Jones’ sculpture collection from 1965 to 2002.
Scarce illustrated catalogue for the memorial exhibition of the short-lived sculptor of genius, Charles Sargeant Jagger. “By the death of Charles Sargeant Jagger, British art has lost a sculptor who had something important to say and who was able to say it with vigour and distinction”.
A stylish 1935 book of sculpture including both instructions for sculpting and a historical account of sculpture.
Through his interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states. My Red Homeland presents a welcome retrospective view of Kapoor’s work since the early 90s.
A beautifully illustrated artist’s book, containing 160 pages of images, and 16 full colour inserts depicting Kapoor’s exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in 2008.
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Henry Moore: Late Large Forms at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. Moore’s oeuvre, emblematic of modern British sculpture, is informed by elements of the abstract, the surreal, the primitive, and the classical. His rolling corporeal forms are as accessible and familiar as they are distinctly avant-garde.
The Henry Moore Foundation brings forward a fully illustrated paperback edition of works.
The Drawings of Henry Moore balances first-class imagery with discussion of a range of fascinating themes.
Published as a special issue of the XXe Siècle Review in French, this edition contains CGM 182, two quotations by Henry Moore and articles on his life and work.
Chris Owen’s comprehensive account of the coalmining drawings explores every aspect of Moore’s commission for the Coal Mines.
Julian Andrews looks at Moore’s personal and political feelings about the war and his doubts about working as an Official War Artist, comparing Moore’s wartime drawings to works by other artists and to documentary photographs.
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council (Republic of Ireland).
A Tate Gallery publication of Eduardo Paolozzi’s September 1971 exhibition, the first large-scale showing of the Italian artist’s work in Britain. Put together by Frank Whitford, a contributing editor of the magazine Studio International and teacher of Fine Art at the Slade School, London.
The Sculpture of Michael Sandle concentrates on the artist’s masterpieces and reveals some of his as yet unrealised projects.
William Turnbull’s individualism has manifested itself in a wealth of challenging and varied work – including his visionary archetypal ‘Masks’, ‘Heads’ and ‘Idols’ and his ‘Totem’ sculptures – all of which are recorded in Amanda Davidson’s fascinating narrative and thoroughly researched catalogue.
Ben Whitworth introduces the work of Leon Underwood and presents a complete catalogue of Underwood’s sculptural oeuvre and a fascinating insight into the man himself.
A collection of sculptures honouring Scottish tradition and craftsmanship.
Part travel diary and part love letter to the cities of Tokyo and Osaka, In Bloom is a searing, hyper-visual journey into the heart of Japanese underground culture and an ode to the overwhelming experience of seeing a place with the eyes of a stranger for the first time.
The first comprehensive overview of the life and work of pioneering British sculptor Frank Dobson (1886-1963). In the 1920s and 1930s Dobson was an important member of the British avant garde.
Author Tom Flynn considers the full range of Sean Henry’s work from four different viewpoints, in successive chapters: Technique and Scale; Colour and Realism; Theatricality; and Location and Environment.
Published to accompany Sean Henry’s 2020 solo show ‘Waiting For The Sun’ at Osborne Samuel in London. The figures echo some of the artist’s earliest works.

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