The uncompromising sculpture that emerged in Britain after the Second World War
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 PaolozziShattered Head
1956
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© The Eduardo Paolozzi Foundation
Lynn ChadwickThe Fisheater
1951
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© The estate of Lynn Chadwick. All Rights Reserved 2018 / Bridgeman Images
Geoffrey ClarkeComplexities of Man
1951
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© Geoffrey Clarke
Dame Elisabeth FrinkDead Hen
1957
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© Frink Estate
Louise HutchinsonThree-fold Head
c.1953
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© reserved
Luciano Minguzzi The Unknown Political Prisoner: Figure within Barbed Wire 1952 Tate
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Dates
29 October 2018 – 4 February 2019
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