Thames & Hudson to publish Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton
Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton. Foreword by Ali Smith. Published by Thames & Hudson, 20 May 2021 £25.00 hardback, 178 illustrations, 24.00 x 16.5cm, 288pp.
LONDON
.- Barbara Hepworth is now acknowledged as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. This compelling new biography, published on the occasion of a major retrospective opening at The Hepworth Wakefield, offers new insights into the remarkable life, work and legacy of this singular artist, bringing together Hepworths expansive public statements with previously unpublished private correspondence.
An essential player in the history of modernism: Barbara Hepworth (19031975) was born in Wakefield and trained in Leeds and London. She was at the forefront of several avant-garde movements in her early career; a proponent of direct carving from the 1920s, one of a handful of British artists to feature in the Paris-ba