50 Women Sculptors

by Anna Verprinska (Contribution by), Cheryl Robson (Editor), Joanna Sperryn-Jones (Introduction), Melissa Hamnett (Foreword by), Maggi Hambling (Contribution by)

Overview

How many women sculptors can you name? This book will help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors - significant artists from the past as well as those working in the exciting world of sculpture today.

Featuring:
Camille Claudel, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, Niki de Saint Phalle, Louise Bourgeois, Ruth Asawa, Rachel Whiteread, Malvina Hoffman, Maggi Hambling, Cornelia Parker, Senga Ningudi, Sophie Ryder, and many more…

With an overview of women making sculpture from the 1800s to today, we explore the work of fifty extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, broken rules, pushed boundaries and inspired us with their visionary creations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993220777
Publisher:	Aurora Metro Books
Publication date:	07/01/2019
Series:	50 Women , #2
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Joanna Sperryn-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Sculpture Practice at York St John University. 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 breaking as making' in Artistic Research: Strategies for Embodiment, McGuirk, Tom & Fentz, Christine (eds.) Nordic Summer UniversityPress (2015), 'Breaking as making: A methodology for visual work reflected in writing' in Art and Destruction, Walden, Jenny (ed.) Cambridge Scholars Press (2013).

Melissa Hamnett Head of Heritage Collections and Chief Curator at House of Commons responsible for the Parliamentary Art Collection, the Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collection and the Architectural Fabric Collection. Formerly Curator of Sculpture at the V&A.

Cheryl Robson is a filmmaker, writer and editor who worked at the BBC for several years and then taught filmmaking at the University of Westminster. She also created a publishing company, publishing over 200 international writers. As a writer, she has won the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition and as co-editor, published Celluloid Ceiling: women film directors breaking through, the first global overview of women film directors and Silent Women; pioneers of cinema voted best book on silent film in 2017.

Melissa Hamnett is Head of Heritage Collections and Chief Curator at UK Parliament responsible for the Parliamentary Art Collection, the Historic Furniture and Decorative Arts Collection and the Architectural Fabric Collection. Formerly Curator of Sculpture at the V&A.

Editor Cheryl Robson is a film-maker, writer and editor who worked at the BBC for several years and then taught film-making at the University of Westminster. Her acclaimed music documentary Rock n Roll Island aired on BBC4 in 2020 and was named a Sunday Times Critics Choice programme.

In addition, she has created a publishing company, publishing over 200 international writers. As a writer, she has won the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition and as co-editor, published Celluloid Ceiling: women film directors breaking through, the first global overview of women film directors and Silent Women; pioneers of cinema voted best book on silent film in 2017. In 2019 she was a finalist in the ITV National Diversity Awards for Lifetime Achievement.

www.cherylrobson.net

Table of Contents

Foreword by Melissa Hamnett

Introduction by Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones

Profiles of the pioneers and legends:

Ruth Asawa ◉ Phyllida Barlow ◉ Louise Bourgeois ◉ Judy Chicago ◉ Camille Claudel
◉ Niki de Saint Phalle ◉ Elisabeth Frink ◉ Katharina Fritsch ◉ Anya Gallaccio ◉ Mona Hatoum ◉ Barbara Hepworth ◉ Eva Hesse ◉ Rebecca Horn ◉ Harriet Hosmer ◉ Yayoi Kusama ◉ Edmonia Lewis ◉ Frances Loring ◉ Sarah Lucas ◉ Annette Messager ◉ Senga Nengudi ◉ Cornelia Parker ◉ Sophie Ryder ◉ Doris Salcedo ◉ Alina Szapocznikow ◉ Rachel Whiteread ◉ Florence Wyle

Interviews with Contemporary women sculptors in their own words:

◉ 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

Index

What People are Saying About This

Guy Portelli Sculptor

“There is a need for books to celebrate new thought, new ideas, new people and this is what it achieves.”

Editorial Reviews

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.

Longer academic review - Lorna Green

It shows a wide range of sculptural practice with interesting interviews giving insight into the artist‘s process.

Royal Society of Sculptors - Clare Burnett - President RSS

There is need for books to celebrate new thought, new ideas, new people and this is what it achieves.

Email - Guy Portelli

5.0 out of 5 stars Good value book :an over view which may encourage more girls to explore 3D work.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2021
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A very good starter book of Women Sculptors should be in every school Art room—-if they have one. *****

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