Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture

by Anne Middleton Wagner

In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their shared avant-garde materialism, and identifies a common theme that runs through their work and that of other artists of the period: maternity.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300106858
• ISBN13: 9780300106855
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 10.5"