The Sculpture Of Frank Dobson (British Sculptors And Sculpture Series) (British Sculptors And Sculpture Series)

This is the first comprehensive overview of the life and work of pioneering British sculptor Frank Dobson (1886-1963). In the 1920s and 1930s Dobson was an important member of the British avant garde, and with Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Jacob Epstein, he represented to Britain and the world what was best and most advanced in British sculpture. Yet with the rise of a younger generation of sculptors led by Henry Moore, Dobsons reputation as an artist languished and his art became seen as dated. The exhibition True and Pure Sculpture, held at Kettles Yard, Cambridge in 1981, succeeded in introducing Dobsons work to many not previously acquainted with it, and extending the knowledge of those who were. The Sculpture of Frank Dobson catalogues and illustrates over two hundred pieces of sculpture, and includes sixteen large-format colour plates. An illustrated survey of Dobsons life places his career in the context of the development of the Modern Movement in Britain.