LEON UNDERWOOD british art sculptor painter primitivism

ISBN 0500090998

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Leon Underwood's periodic appearances as sculptor, painter and printmaker since 1920 have frequently shown him to be in the forefront of developments, yet for long periods his refreshing distaste for galleries and critics has allowed him to be almost forgotten.

In the 1920s and 1930s his work, like that of his contemporaries, was concerned with the evolution of the formal language of sculpture but, characteristically independent, he refused to develop it into the area of total abstraction. His early belief in the importance of significant subject matter was reinforced by his travels in Poland, Iceland, Spain and Mexico, and later in Africa where he developed his interest in its primitive art on which he is an authority.

His vigorous late bronzes, an economical expression of form and content, are the most recent manifestation of his aggressively independent philosophy of art. This, the first biographical and critical study of Underwood, should establish him as a much underrated talent in British art of the last 50 years.

224 pages. Hard cover with UNCLIPPED dust jacket. NOT ex-library.

Weight = 800 g

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