Antony Gormley

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For more than thirty-five years, since his first solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, Antony Gormley has sought to explore the relationship of the human body to space and to reinvigorate and test the opportunity of sculpture.  
 
This beautiful and definitive monograph examines the entirety of Gormley’s career, from his earliest sketches to his best-known public installations. With unprecedented get right of entry to not only to the archives but to the working studio and to the artist himself, Martin Caiger-Smith examines the relationship between Gormley’s life and art, and identifies the singular and obsessional vision that ties together a vast canon of work in an bizarre range of media and materials.
 
Best known for the major public works that most visibly represent his rigorous and innovative approach to sculpture, Gormley is a prolific and intellectual artist who has renegotiated the tension between the individual and the universal. Drawing on images that range from childhood snapshots to photographs of his most contemporary gallery installations, this book traces the evolution of Gormley’s work, from the drawings he makes each day in the studio, through the continuously evolving process of casting his own body in more than a few forms, to the ultimate expression of his ideas in such masterpieces as the colossal Angel of the North or the scattered figures of Every other Place.  
 
Illustrated with hundreds of images that explore the true scale and have an effect on of Gormley’s work—many never published before—complemented with Caiger-Smith’s critical narrative, this book is a comprehensive survey of a in point of fact monumental career.

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