Richard Deacon

by Jon Thompson

Awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, Richard Deacon (b.1944) has occupied the foreground of British sculpture since the early 1980s and continues to be an artist of profound international significance, fulfilling major public sculpture commissions around the world. His work emerged alongside that of contemporaries such as Tony Cragg and Richard Wentworth in the early 1980s. Their sculpture rejected the heroic formalism and sometimes oppressive monumentality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714839493
• ISBN13: 9780714839493
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.0" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary