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Artist: Robert Adams Author: Alastair Grieve Publisher: HMF/Lund Humphries Date: 1992 Condition: A very good and clean copy, the first edition hardback with the original unclipped dust wrapper over red linen boards. A small price sticker to the verso of the wrapper, internally very nice. Loosely inserted are two pages from a Christie's 2007 auction catalogue showing Adams sculptures
The standard reference on Adams' work, this very comprehensive catalogue raisonne is accompanied by several short essays introducing each phase of his oeuvre. Illustrated throughout in black and white, it also includes several period shots showing the sculptures in situ.
Although part of the famous 'Aspects of British Sculpture' generation, his work is not as well-known as contemporaries such as Chadwick or Meadows, yet it is often rather beautiful and he frequently combines both organic and mathematical influences to achieve his end results.
A book for not only the Adams' devotee but anyone interested in British sculpture in the post-1945 period.
