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Title
Britain
Seen
from the
North
.
Creator
Cragg, Tony (English sculptor, born 1949)
Date
1981
Cultural Context
English
British
European
Style/Period
Contemporary
Postmodern
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Found objects
Mixed media
Fragments
Maps
Nations
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Recycling
Materialism
Economics
Politics
Government
Subject
Sculpture
Mixed media
Maps
Recycling
Conservation of natural resources
Economics
Economic & political systems
Political issues
Politics & government
Description
"
It
was not
until
the
end
of the
1970s
, in the
work
of a
new
generation
of
sculptors
including
Tony
Cragg
,
Richard
Deacon
,
Anish
Kapoor
, and
Bill
Woodrow
, that the
sculptural
object
as
such
, in
relation
to
human
or
urban
themes
,
reassumed
importance.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.156)
; "
Born
in
Britain
,
Cragg
moved
in
1977
to
Wuppertal
in
West
Germany
where
he has
worked
ever
since
. This
information
adds
a
personal
dimension
to this
primarily
political
gesture
. In the
early
1980s
Cragg
largely
concentrated
on
themes
relating
to
landscape
and the
city
, but his
work
changed
dramatically
later
in the
decade
. He
became
more
interested
in the
relationships
between
organic
and
manmade
forms
and
experimented
widely
with
diverse
materials.
"
(Caption
,
p.225)
; "
[Jeff
Koons's]
sheer
effrontery
sits
interestingly
alongside
rather
different
European
responses
to
consumerism
in the
1980s
. In
Britain
, for
instance
, the
sculptors
Tony
Cragg
and
Bill
Woodrow
[…]
developed
an
iconography
of
recycling
to
counter
the
flagrant
materialism
of
nascent
Thatcherism
.
Cragg's
Britain
Seen
from the
North
, an
array
of
found
plastic
objects
and
fragments
arranged
to
configure
a
person
approaching
a
map
of
Britain
,
invokes
widespread
perceptions
of an
ideological
rift
between
the
country's
north
and
south
,
subtly
revising
Luciano
Fabro's
Golden
Italy.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.224)
Location Depicted
Great Britain
England
United Kingdom
Material
Mixed media
Found objects
Plastic (organic material)
Work Type
Sculpture
Found objects
Mixed media
Repository
Tate Gallery (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.225, fig.118)
Rights
© Tate Gallery 1999, London. Purchased 1982.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-17.jpg
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