New British Sculpture is the name given to the work of a group of artists, sculptors and installation artists who began to exhibit together in London, England, in the early 1980s, including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Richard Wentworth.Tate Collection New British Sculpture
Tim Woods has characterized the movement by identifying four major themes, "(a) a synthesis of pop and kitsch, (b) a bricolage (assemblage) of the decaying UK urban environment and the waste of consumer society, (c) an exploration of the way in which objects are assigned meanings, and (d) a play of colour, wit and humour."Tim Woods, Beginning Postmodernism (Manchester: MUP, 1999), p.126. Preview available on Amazon reader An early champion was art dealer Nicholas Logsdail who exhibited many of the artists at his Lisson Gallery.
Artists
Edward Allington Stephen Cox Tony Cragg Grenville Davey Richard Deacon Barry Flanagan Anthony Gormley Shirazeh Houshiary Anish Kapoor Julian Opie Boyd Webb Richard Wentworth Rachel Whiteread Alison Wilding Bill Woodrow
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