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TOTEM: the untold story of sculpture
‘Groundbreaking’ KATY HESSEL
‘Lively and passionate’ SIR ANTONY GORMLEY
‘A revelation’ KATE BRYAN
For forty thousand years, we have been carving and moulding, shaping and chiselling, feeling our way and sensing our place in the world through sculpture.
Jo’s first book is an accessible, story-led journey into the heart of sculpture, as she explores creativity, memory and why we have been driven to make art in this medium since the very beginning of humanity.
Editior: revisiting modern british art
‘An intelligent and engaging reappraisal of modern British art.’ STEPHEN DEUCHAR
‘This inclusive, questioning, invigorating book feels like a game-changer’ CHARLOTTE MULLINS
Jo edited this book of essays, which looks at how notions of our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift as the twenty-first century unfolds. Within this, accepted artistic trajectories are being questioned and new connections made.
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Editor: Hughie o’donoghue
‘I am so pleased that there is now such a wide-ranging, well-illustrated monograph which helps one to understand and interpret his work’. CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH
Hughie O'Donoghue (b. 1953) explores themes of universal human experience, ideas of truth and the relationship between memory and identity. Often standing apart from his contemporaries in the scale and ambition of his paintings, O'Donoghue's work addresses the need to learn the lessons and complexities of recent history through the lens of the often overlooked and anonymous individual.