Anthony Caro: A Life in Sculpture (Art Recently Published)
by Julius Bryant
from Merrell
A complete introduction to one of the world's most respected and influential sculptors. A rare and exclusive new interview with Caro ranges from personal recollections of other artists to vivid accounts of the creative process. Rich in new insights into Caro's art and outlook. Illustrates Caro's latest works and key pieces in museums worldwide. Published to mark Caro's eightieth birthday in 2004.
Anthony Caro (Art Catalogue)
by Paul Moorhouse
from Tate
Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is widely regarded as Britain's greatest living sculptor and has enjoyed an international reputation since the early 1960s. Although best known for his work in steel, Caro has also worked in bronze, wood, lead, ceramics, and paper, on both large and intimate scales. Since the 1980s, the range of Caro's work has increased, encompassing "sculpitecture" (sculpture that the viewer can enter); large-scale works that allude to classical architecture; and sculptures that respond to earlier works by such masters as Rubens, Manet, and Matisse.
This extensively illustrated book includes an overview of Caro's career by Paul Moorhouse, as well as critical essays by Michael Fried and Dave Hickey. This publication accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Caro's work opening at Tate Britain in January 2005 and is the most up-to-date survey of Caro's work in print. AUTHOR BIO: Paul Moorhouse is a Tate curator. Michael Fried is a professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a well-known art critic. Dave Hickey is professor of art theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a curator, and a widely published critic.
Anthony Caro (Art & Design)
Earth, Sky, and Sculpture
by Peter A. Bienstock
from Storm King Art Center
Just 60 miles north of New York City, set in a beautiful valley of the Hudson Highlands, are 500 acres of open fields, intimate woodlands, and rolling hills that form an outdoor museum unequaled anywhere in the world. The Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, is a unique setting for modern sculpture. The natural beauty of the landscape - continually enhanced, sculpted, and nurtured - is home to an ever-evolving collection of important works of modern art. Here the sculpture of such modern masters as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Liberman, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, George Rickey, Richard Serra, David Smith, Kenneth Snelson, and Ursula von Rydingsvard find surroundings equal to their heroic presence.
"Earth, Sky, and Sculpture" is at once a glorious celebration of natural beauty and a wide-ranging survey of the impressive international developments in sculpture since the advent of Modernism. What becomes extraordinarily clear is that most twentieth-century sculpture is seen at its best not in closed galleries but outdoors, under the sky. Works such as Isamu Noguchi's stone "Momo Taro" and David Smith's stainless-steel "XI Books III Apples" respond to changing light and weather as if they were alive.
The magnificent photographs of Jerry L. Thompson capture the landscape and the works of art in summer and snow, at sunrise and dusk, glistening in the rain and shimmering in the mist. The interplay between works of sculpture and billowing clouds, fields of spring flowers, and green golden, and scarlet foliage adds dimension to the experience of sculpture only equaled by many visits to the Storm King Art Center itself.
Essays by H. Peter Stern, chairman and president of Storm King; Peter Bienstock, specialist in land conservation and open space preservation; Irving Lavin, renowned art historian; and Joan Pachner, curator, enhance our appreciation of the land itself and of the Art Center's important collection.
Anthony Caro: Barbarians
by Dave Hickey
from Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Description: "Through the ages," recounts Britain's foremost sculptor, Anthony Caro, "civilizations have often been subjected to unexpected assaults from warrior tribes. This happened when the Tartars overran Asia and the Huns and Goths plundered Rome. My Barbarians allude to this history." Comprised of six life-size figures on horseback and one female figure in a chariot, Caro's recently-completed sculpture evokes a timeless, mythic character. Made of wood, leather, steel and ceramic elements, The Barbarians marks a new departure in the artist's distinguished career.
Anthony Caro: Quest For The New Sculpture
by Ian Barker
from Lund Humphries Publishers
Anthony Caro is internationally recognised as one of the greatest modernist sculptors. His radical approach heralded a revolution in sculpture. Through his work and teaching he freed sculpture from 'the monolith'.
This landmark publication is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the artist's achievements to date, as seen through a wealth of fascinating archival and contemporary sources. It exclusively brings together selections from his previously unpublished correspondence with critics, including Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, and his fellow artists.
The story of Caro's quest for a new language for sculpture is told through these extracts from letters and interviews. Contemporary critical reaction to Caro's sculpture is also traced through selected press cuttings from his principal exhibitions and other major events of his career. Caro's working processes and views on sculpture are detailed both through an engaging chronological examination of his entire development and through previously unpublished documentary images of the exhibitions, places and personalities that influenced his work.
Anthony Caro: An exhibition of recent sculpture on the occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday
Table and related sculptures, 1966-1978
Anthony Caro, painted sculpture, 1983-1985: [exhibition] March 6-29, 1986, André Emmerich Gallery
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