Modern Art and St Ives: International Exchanges 1915-65 - Softcover

Chris Stephens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184976302X ISBN 13: 9781849763028

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Modern Art and St Ives explores the art and artists that we associate with St Ives from 1915 to 1965, within a national and international context. The art of post-war St Ives drew upon two key strands of modern art. The first was the utopian ideal of Constructivism, that began in Moscow in the 1910s and continued through Berlin and Paris between the wars. St Ives-born Peter Lanyon, for example, began making constructions in 1939 when he was working in the studio of Russian sculptor Naum Gabo. (On the outbreak of World War II Gabo had followed Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson to St Ives.) The second strand was the tradition of craft and the handmade. Carving and ceramic work from all over Europe can be compared with the St Ives work of this period, and shared influences understood in each. Major works by leading St Ives artists are placed alongside that of their contemporaries from elsewhere in Europe, North America and beyond. Works from public and private collections in the UK and abroad help to situate artists engagement with St Ives within wider global artistic and aesthetic concerns.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Stephens is lead Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain Sara Matson is a Curator at Tate St Ives Rachel Smith is a Doctoral Student at the Tate Research Centre for Creative Communities Paul Denison is Principal Lecturer (International Affairs), School of Arts & Media, Teesside University Michael White is Reader in History of Art, Department of History of Art, University of York

About this edition

• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184976302X
• ISBN 13: 9781849763028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160