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biography JACOB EPSTEIN sculptor artist HB/DJ sculpture art

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Features
Dust Jacket, Illustrated
ISBN
9780786710003
Book Title
Demons and Angels : Alife of Jacob Epstein
Publisher
Hachette Books
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2002
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Author
June Rose
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0786710004
ISBN-13
9780786710003
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2294913

Product Key Features

Book Title
Demons and Angels : Alife of Jacob Epstein
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Author
June Rose
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-067253
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
730/.92 B
Synopsis
"I feel that I can do the best, most profound things and life is short. How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil." Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words. Now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work of a genius by a few contemporary figures such as Ezra Pound and Augustus John, but produced hostility and censoriousness from the art establishment. His is a true rags-to-riches story. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish Ghetto of New York but emigrated to Europe to live a bohemian life, with a wife and several mistresses in a domestic menage. By the time of his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world and many in political and other spheres. He endured public scandals caused by the nudity of his so-called Strand Statues (1907-1908; destroyed 1937) and the debauched-looking angel on his 1912 memorial for Oscar Wilde, but in 1946 he modeled the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill and was himself knighted in 1954. It is a comment on changing tastes that Epstein's magnificent carving in alabaster, "Jacob and the Angel," once refused by the Tate Gallery, now stands in the Central Sculpture Hall of Tate Britain. His sculpture, drawing, and other work are to be found in museums and art galleries all over the world. Daemons and Angels, the first biography in fifty years of this controversial sculptor, features black-and-white photographs throughout., I feel that I can do the best, most profound things and life is short. How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil. Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words. Now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work of a genius by a few contemporary figures such as Ezra Pound and Augustus John, but produced hostility and censoriousness from the art establishment. His is a true rags-to-riches story. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish Ghetto of New York but emigrated to Europe to live a bohemian life, with a wife and several mistresses in a domestic menage. By the time of his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world and many in political and other spheres. He endured public scandals caused by the nudity of his so-called Strand Statues (1907-1908; destroyed 1937) and the debauched-looking angel on his 1912 memorial for Oscar Wilde, but in 1946 he modeled the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill and was himself knighted in 1954. It is a comment on changing tastes that Epstein's magnificent carving in alabaster, "Jacob and the Angel," once refused by the Tate Gallery, now stands in the Central Sculpture Hall of Tate Britain. His sculpture, drawing, and other work are to be found in museums and art galleries all over the world. Daemons and Angels, the first biography in fifty years of this controversial sculptor, features black-and-white photographs throughout.
LC Classification Number
NB497.E6R67 2002

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