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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates bright and vivid.. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Anthony Caro is Britain’s most celebrated living sculptor an artist of the highest international renown and a figure of unquestionable significance in the history of modern Western art. His innovations and his influential teaching – which suggested that sculpture could be made of literally anything – effectively reinvented the language of the medium itself. His influence – for example in eliminating the plinth and placing the sculpture in the viewer’s own space now a convention – has been profound. And the presence and resonance today of his work from across six decades is as this exhibition bears witness extraordinary. This exhibition follows the retrospectives of Lucian Freud (2002) and Bridget Riley (2003) as the third in Tate Britain’s series devoted to major artists whose sustained impact on the course and reputation of modern British art has seemed to us worthy of complete exploration and committed presentation to a new contemporary public. Unusually but unapologetically we have devoted not only the standard exhibition space in our upper floor galleries at Millbank but the whole of our central Duveen galleries to the show as well. This has enabled us to trace in some depth the evolution of Caro’s art from the early figurative bronzes through the landmark abstract works of the middle period to the monumental figurative and architectural works of more recent years. (MP)