50 Women Sculptors (50 Women, 2)

Product Description

How many women sculptors can you name? This book will challenge perceptions that sculpture is a male pursuit and help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of incredible women sculptors – significant artists from the past as well as those working in the exciting and varied world of sculpture today. ,p>Includes 25 pioneering female sculptors: Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Camille Claudel, Frances Loring & Florence Wyle, Barbara Hepworth, Louise Bourgeois, Ruth Asawa, Alina Szapocznikow, Yayoi Kusama, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Elisabeth Frink, Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Annette Messager, Rebecca Horn Phyllida Barlow, Mona Hatoum, Katharina Fritsch, Cornelia Parker, Doris Salcedo, Sarah Lucas, Rachel Whiteread, Anya Gallacio, Sophie Ryder. And in their own words, we hear from 25 contemporary women sculptors making original and ground-breaking work. Features dozens of colour images of the sculpture and installations from: Tabatha Andrews, Rachel Ara, Annie Attridge, Helaine Blumenfeld, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Silke Dettmers, Laury Dizengremel, Jane McAdam Freud, Lucy Glendinning, Maggi Hambling, Kendra Haste, Holly Hendry, Christine Kowal Post, Sophie Marsham, Nnenna Okore, Arundhata Patel, Maya Ramsay, Marianne Reim, Frances Richardson, Raphaele Shirley, Susan Stockwell, Sinta Tantra, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Patricia Volk, Zhang Yaxi With an overview of women making sculpture from the 1880s to today, this book explores the work of 50 extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, as well as breaking rules, pushing boundaries and inspiring us with their visionary creations. With many colour photos will appeal to all lovers of the arts; this book is essential reading for students of the arts, culture and gender studies

Review

“It shows a wide range of sculptural practice with interesting interviews giving insight into the artist‘s process.” — Clare Burnett – President RSS ―
Royal Society of Sculptors

50 Women Sculptors is a beautifully illustrated book which presents the world of undervalued and under recognised women sculptors from the past as well as a selection from the present, with in depth interviews on their life, inspirations, working methods and use of all materials mentioned above – an improvement compared with the past but there is still room for full equality to be achieved. For those interested in sculpture, whether practising sculptors or researchers, or those at the start of their careers, this is an extremely valuable book and perfect introduction to encourage further research and interest in sculpture by women. — Lorna Green, sculptor & environmentalist ―
Longer academic review

Review

“There is a need for books to celebrate new thought, new ideas, new people and this is what it achieves.” — Guy Portelli Sculptor, Art Fair Director

About the Author

Helaine Blumenfeld (born 1942) is an American sculptor particularly known for her large-scale public sculptures. She creates works primarily in marble and bronze but also in granite and other materials. Examples of her work are in the collections of Clare College, Cambridge, the Courtauld Gallery and the Smithsonian. Amongst her large-scale public works are ‘Family’ in granite installed in Henry Reuss Federal Plaza in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; ‘Tempesta’ in marble at The Lancasters, London; and ‘Fortuna’ in bronze at Canary Wharf, London. A fellow and past vice president of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Blumenfeld was awarded an Honorary OBE in 2011. She lives in the United Kingdom and works there and in Pietrasanta, in Tuscany in central Italy.

Joanna is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Sculpture Practice at York St John University and she has over 15 years’ experience of teaching in education and in prisons. As a sculptor she has had numerous exhibitions and has written many articles about art and sculpture notably: ‘Cutting up conference papers: audience participation in break