First Edition, first print hardback of EPSTEIN - An Autobiography by Jacob Epstein and published by Hulton Press Ltd., London, in 1955.
The book is in good condition (Clean green & black illustrated boards, bound in quarter green cloth, gold lettering on the spine which has slight creasing to the spine edges, some bumping and rubbing to the corners). No dust jacket. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is slight tanning and foxing to the front and back endpapers.
This is a revised and extended edition of the work of Sir Jacob Epstein first published in 1940 under the title Let there be Sculpture . With extensive appendices.
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE, American-born British sculptor helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees living on New York's Lower East Side. His family were middle class Orthodox Jews, and he was the third of five children. His interest in drawing came from long periods of illness; as a child he suffered from pleurisy. From a young age, Epstein rejected his family's orthodoxy and grew tired of religious ceremony. He took an interest in pantheism and anarchism, but claimed in his autobiography that his only real interest was art, and that he was never politically or religiously active as an adult. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modeling at night.
Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's Spirit of the Ghetto. The money from the commission was used by Epstein to move to Paris. Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905, and after marrying Margaret Dunlop in 1907 he became a British citizen. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at no. 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (blue plaque on no. 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers aka the Jewish Legion during World War I.
Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd, revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculptures are distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Brilliantly avant garde in concept and style, his works often shocked the general public. Throughout his career, he aroused hostility, especially challenging taboos surrounding the depiction of sexuality. Works condemned in his time as obscene and disgraceful today communicate thought and understanding.
Epstein would sculpt the images of friends, casual acquaintances, and even people dragged from the street into his studio almost at random. He worked even on his dying day. Famous sculptures include: the Oscar Wilde Memorial (1911; Père-Lachaise, Paris) , a marble Venus (1917; Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn.), a bronze Christ (1919; Wheathamstead), etc.
His art is displayed all over the world; highly original for its time, its influence on the younger generation of sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth was significant. According to June Rose, in her biography, Moore was befriended by the older sculptor during the early 1920s and visited Epstein in his studio. Epstein, along with Moore and Hepworth, all expressed a deep fascination with the non- western art from the British Museum.
294 pages. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 94 monochrome plates from photographs throughout.
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The book is in good condition (Clean green & black illustrated boards, bound in quarter green cloth, gold lettering on the spine which has slight creasing to the spine edges, some bumping and rubbing to the corners). No dust jacket. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is slight tanning and foxing to the front and back endpapers.
This is a revised and extended edition of the work of Sir Jacob Epstein first published in 1940 under the title Let there be Sculpture . With extensive appendices.
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE, American-born British sculptor helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees living on New York's Lower East Side. His family were middle class Orthodox Jews, and he was the third of five children. His interest in drawing came from long periods of illness; as a child he suffered from pleurisy. From a young age, Epstein rejected his family's orthodoxy and grew tired of religious ceremony. He took an interest in pantheism and anarchism, but claimed in his autobiography that his only real interest was art, and that he was never politically or religiously active as an adult. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modeling at night.
Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's Spirit of the Ghetto. The money from the commission was used by Epstein to move to Paris. Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905, and after marrying Margaret Dunlop in 1907 he became a British citizen. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at no. 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (blue plaque on no. 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers aka the Jewish Legion during World War I.
Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd, revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculptures are distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Brilliantly avant garde in concept and style, his works often shocked the general public. Throughout his career, he aroused hostility, especially challenging taboos surrounding the depiction of sexuality. Works condemned in his time as obscene and disgraceful today communicate thought and understanding.
Epstein would sculpt the images of friends, casual acquaintances, and even people dragged from the street into his studio almost at random. He worked even on his dying day. Famous sculptures include: the Oscar Wilde Memorial (1911; Père-Lachaise, Paris) , a marble Venus (1917; Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn.), a bronze Christ (1919; Wheathamstead), etc.
His art is displayed all over the world; highly original for its time, its influence on the younger generation of sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth was significant. According to June Rose, in her biography, Moore was befriended by the older sculptor during the early 1920s and visited Epstein in his studio. Epstein, along with Moore and Hepworth, all expressed a deep fascination with the non- western art from the British Museum.
294 pages. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 94 monochrome plates from photographs throughout.
ISBN: n/a
PAYMENT CAN BE MADE BY CREDIT CARD VIA NOCHEX (SECURE PAYMENT PROCESSOR FOR UK & INTERNATIONAL BUYERS - NO FEES) WE ALSO ACCEPT CHEQUES OR POSTAL ORDERS IN BRITISH POUNDS AS WELL AS BANK DRAFTS ALSO IN BRITISH POUNDS
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* Payment by Credit Card or by postal order: item will be posted within 24 hours
* Payment by Cheque/Bank Draft: item will be posted when funds have cleared
* Combined postage if more than one item is purchased
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Product Code:1973
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