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TITLE:
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Complexities of Man
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WORK DATE:
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1951
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CATEGORY:
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Sculptures
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MATERIALS:
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Unique iron and stone sculpture
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SIZE:
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h: 135 x w: 41 cm / h: 53.1 x w: 16.1 in
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REGION:
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British
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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In a text for the catalogue of the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1952, Herbert Read wrote of the qualities shared by a new generation of British sculptors: "These new images belong to the iconography of despair, or of defiance... Here are images of flight... of excoriated flesh, frustrated sex, the geometry of fear..."
"Their art is close to the nerves, nervous, wiry... They have seized Eliot’s image of the Hollow Men... They have peopled the Waste Land with iron waifs."
In his article for Art News entitled Britain’s New Iron Age Lawrence Alloway discussed Complexities of Man, quoting Geoffrey Clarke’s statement about this work: "the base of the rods represent the physical ...the inner tops of the rods represent mental activities… Some are blocked meaning that some of the mental or physical senses have never been used."
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PROVENANCE:
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The Artist
Private Collection
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LITERATURE:
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Herbert Read, New Aspects of British Sculpture, XXVI Venice Biennale, 1952
Lawrence Alloway, Britain’s New Iron Age, Art News, Summer, 1953
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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Geoffrey Clarke, Gimpel Fils Gallery, 1952
New Aspects of British Sculpture, British Pavilion, XXVI Venice Biennale, 1952
British Sculpture, British Council, USA tour, 1955
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