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Article: Primary form; Anthony Caro.(A retrospective of Anthony Caro's sculptures at the Tate Britain)(Sir Anthony Caro)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2005
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A sculptor who abandoned the representation of things has come back to it
AT THE turn of the 1960s, something happened to sculpture. It came down off its pedestal. It looked to new materials such as steel in the pursuit of new forms and new ideas. One man at the heart of that revolution was a British sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro, whose life's work is being surveyed at Tate Britain, London, from this week. The exhibition runs until April 17th.
"When I was young, sculpture was a secondary art form, something which, at best, embellished buildings," this extraordinarily spry 80-year-old says. "It had been like that, with a handful of honourable exceptions, ...