The Sculpture of Eric Kennington
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The Sculpture of Eric Kennington
Cover
The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries
290 x 240 mm
112 pages
Includes 97 b&w illustrations
Hardback
ISBN: 0 85331 823 9
2002
This is the first book on the sculpture of Eric Kennington.
British artist Eric Kennington (1888 - 1960) was a highly regarded stone carver, whose achievements were ranked in the 1920s and 1930s alongside those of his contemporaries Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill and Frank Dobson. His work has since fallen into neglect: Jonathan Black attributes this unjust neglect to Kennington's position between sculptural traditionalists and avant-garde artists in England.
Kennington was an Official War Artist in the First World War, and carved a number of war memorials in the 1920s. His later work is characterised by public architectural sculpture carved directly into the exterior surface of a building, and his public commissions include five relief panels for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford upon Avon (1930-2); models/plans for the Pan American Columbus Memorial Lighthouse, Santo Domingo (1930-4); and the stone relief for the Harold Cohen Memorial Library, University of Liverpool (1937-8). In 1936-9, Kennington carved his masterpiece: a recumbent effigy of T.E. Lawrence ('of Arabia'), with whom he was friends since 1920. During the last fifteen years of his life, he concentrated on producing works for the interiors of churches.
The Sculpture of Eric Kennington includes the first complete catalogue of the artist's sculpture, and an essay which sets the work in the wider context of twentieth-century British art.
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