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Bernard Meadows, Startled Bird 1955. Tate. © The estate of Bernard Meadows
Exhibition
Figure Totem Beast: Sculpture in Britain in the 1950s
29 Oct 2018 – 4 Feb 2019
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The uncompromising sculpture that emerged in Britain after the Second World War.
About
Reflecting the anxieties of the Cold War, artists used new processes and materials to make work that was often uncompromising, immediate and brutal. One critic described it as a ‘Geometry of Fear’.
This exhibition in the Duveen Galleries features younger artists including Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside older artists such as Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore. It also shows how the approach taken by the young British artists can be measured against the work of international artists. This includes entries to a competition to design a monument to the ‘Unknown Political Prisoner’ in 1953.
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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Shattered Head 1956
Tate
© The Eduardo Paolozzi Foundation
Lynn Chadwick
The Fisheater 1951
Tate
© The estate of Lynn Chadwick. All Rights Reserved 2018 / Bridgeman Images
Henry Moore OM, CH
Falling Warrior 1956–7, cast c.1957–60
Tate
© The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved
Dame Elisabeth Frink
Torso 1958
Tate
© Frink Estate
Louise Hutchinson
Three-fold Head c.1953
Tate
© reserved
Luciano Minguzzi The Unknown Political Prisoner: Figure within Barbed Wire 1952 Tate
