Britain Seen from the North.
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Title |
Britain Seen from the North. |
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Creator |
Cragg, Tony (English sculptor, born 1949) |
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Date |
1981 |
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Cultural Context |
English
British
European |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary
Postmodern |
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Subject |
Mixed media
Maps
Recycling
Conservation of natural resources
Economics
Economic & political systems
Political issues
Politics & government |
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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) |
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Location Depicted |
Great Britain
England
United Kingdom |
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Material |
Mixed media
Found objects
Plastic (organic material) |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Found objects
Mixed media |
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Repository |
Tate Gallery (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.225, fig.118) |
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Rights |
© Tate Gallery 1999, London. Purchased 1982. |
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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 826-17.jpg |
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