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Title
Untitled
.
Creator
Deacon, Richard (Welsh sculptor, born 1949)
Date
1980
Cultural Context
Welsh
British
European
Style/Period
Contemporary
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Concretework
Metalwork
Steelwork (objects)
Abstraction
Subject
Sculpture
Abstract sculpture
Abstract works
Metalwork
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)
Material
Galvanized steel
Steel (alloy)
Metal
Iron alloy
Concrete
Technique
Sculpting
Galvanizing
Metalworking
Construction (assembling)
Assembling (additive and joining process)
Work Type
Sculpture
Abstract sculpture
Abstract works
Repository
Private collection (London, England, United Kingdom)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.157, fig.80)
Rights
Photo: Richard Deacon. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-18.jpg
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