Anthony Caro: Presence - Rilegato

Moorhouse, Paul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1848220537 ISBN 13: 9781848220539

Casa editrice: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 2010

This book surveys Caro's free-standing, floor-based, constructed, abstract sculptures from 1960 to the present. The unifying theme of these works is that they answer Caro's imperative 'to make something that was as important in a room as a person'. The author explores the idea of presence in Caro's sculpture, focusing on how, in order to invest sculpture with an independent existence and self-contained reality, it was necessary for Caro to purge it of figurative references. As a result, Caro created sculptures that are 'in the world' but not 'of the world': they have their own individual character, but they exist at a remove, purely for the purpose of contemplation and employing a language of abstract, expressive shape. The book outlines the scope and significance of Caro's achievement in liberating and extending the language of sculpture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and in establishing new realities for sculpture for generations to come.

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Recensione:

'Paul Moorhouse believes that an encounter with a Caro sculpture is akin to encountering a living presence, and this book is an imaginative exploration of the octogenarian's career in those terms' ----- Apollo

L'autore:

Paul Moorhouse is 20th-Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and was previously Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate. He has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on international modern art. At Tate he was the curator of Anthony Caro, the major retrospective exhibition held in 2005, and wrote the accompanying catalogue. In 1991 he curated the exhibition Anthony Caro: Sculpture Towards Architecture at Tate. He is also author of Interpreting Caro.

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