John Carter, 9781912520206
Hardcover
Carter’s drawings reveal the originality of his mind and the love of exactitude and clarity that drives his practice. His singular contribution to the post-war flowering of British abstraction can clearly be seen here.

John Carter

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    160 pages

  • Release Date

    26 June 2019

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Summary

ohn Carter RA has made some of the most beautiful and lucid artworks of the last fifty years. The apparent simplicity and directness of his abstract reliefs belie an ambiguity that extends even to their definition, as Carter seeks subtly to reimagine the relationship between sculpture and painting. Carter is best known for his ‘wall objects’, shallow sculptures based on abstract mathematical formulae. He begins each work with notebook sketches, moving on to larger, measured drawings. It is t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781912520206
ISBN-10:1912520206
Author:Stephen Bann
Publisher:Royal Academy of Arts
Imprint:Royal Academy of Arts
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:26 June 2019
Weight:1.23kg
Dimensions:285mm x 245mm
About The Author

Stephen Bann

Stephen Bann CBE FBA is the Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He writes on the work of a number of contemporary artists, and his work on the dissemination of print images - with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France - has been widely influential.

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