Untitled.
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Title |
Untitled. |
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Creator |
Deacon, Richard (Welsh sculptor, born 1949) |
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Date |
1980 |
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Cultural Context |
Welsh
British
European |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Abstract sculpture |
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Description |
Galvanized steel and concrete. "Deacon's organically related forms often derive from sources in the Bible, poetry, fairy stories, and figures of speech. In the two versions of the laminated wood sculpture For Those Who Have Ears (1982-3), for instance, the open-form, continuously curving structures were derived from the calming effects that Orpheus's songs were said to have on the natural world. As Deacon himself has asserted, the forms in his sculptures evoke the shaping and metaphorical capacities of language." (Caption, p.157); "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. […] Less taken with overtly social themes, Deacon evoked poetic associations between ears, eyes, and animal forms in open structures constructed from girders of laminated strips of wood. The 'skins' of his large shell-like structures were often visibly patched together with materials such as sheet metal, corrugated iron, or linoleum. This fusion of aesthetic form and metaphor would have been unthinkable without precedents such as Robert Morris or Eva Hesse. (Deacon frequently invoked Don Judd and Carl Andre.)" (Excerpts, pp.156-157) |
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Material |
Galvanized steel
Steel (alloy)
Metal
Iron alloy
Concrete |
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Technique |
Sculpting
Galvanizing
Metalworking
Construction (assembling)
Assembling (additive and joining process) |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Abstract sculpture
Abstract works
Metalwork |
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Repository |
Private collection (London, England, United Kingdom) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.157, fig.80) |
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Rights |
Photo: Richard Deacon. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-18.jpg |
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