Anthony Caro

205 Pages·2016·47.97 MB·English

by  Rubin, William, 1927-2006

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Author
Rubin, William, 1927-2006
Date
1975
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed
by New York Graphic Society
ISBN
0870702750, 0870702769
Exhibition URL
www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2494
The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history—
from our founding in 1929 to the present—is
available online. It includes exhibition catalogues,
primary documents, installation views, and an
index of participating artists.
MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art
William
196 pages, 129 illustrations (16 in color), $17.50
William Rubin
ANTHONYC ARO
Anthony Caro holds a particular eminence as the
artist who in recent years has most significantly
extended the tradition of constructed sculpture es
tablished by Picasso on the eve of World War I.
Caro was the first to create large sculptures that
spread out along the ground, independent of base
or pedestal. In creating these pieces he broke with
the "totemic" conventions of Western sculpture (still
adhered to by Picasso and David Smith) in which
the work rises to confront the viewer. The conse
quences were of major import. As William Rubin
points out, "The prevailing horizontality of Caro's
sculpture makes available to him configurations
hitherto unknown in sculpture. The interrelation
ships of the 'ground plan' and the vertical structures
that rise from it—the rhyming, the analogies, even
the puns of this dialogue —open a vast range of
choices." In effect, Caro's approach has enabled him
"to do something utterly new—to work, for the first
time in modern sculpture, in a non-pictorial, inte
grally three-dimensional manner."
This internationally esteemed British artist is now
the subject of a comprehensive survey that reviews
his early career and penetratingly analyzes his
mature work, presenting the entire oeuvre to date
against the historical background of twentieth-
century sculpture. During the writing of this study
the author had the benefit of repeated discussions
with the artist. The book is not only a masterly
introduction to Caro's work, but also a valuable
scholarly tool, complete with chronology, bibliogra
phy, list of exhibitions, and extensive notes. The
abundant illustrations make this volume the most
inclusive pictorial record published on Caro's
achievement.
William Rubin, author of numerous books on
twentieth-century art, is Director of the Department
of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, and Adjunct Professor at The Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University.
Cover: Anthony Caro's MIDDAY (1960), in the Sculp
ture Garden of The Museum of Modern Art, New
York; photograph by Kate Keller.

ANTHONY
CARO

The Museum
of Modern Art
New York
Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Boston
William Rubin
ANTHONY
CARO
Copyright © 1975 by
The Museum of Modern Art
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number
74-21725
Clothbound ISBN 0-87070-275-0
Paperbound ISBN 0-87070-276-9
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Frontispiece: Anthony Caro. London, 1974
TRUSTEESO F
THEM USEUMO F MODERNA RT
William S. Paley, Chairman of the Board;
Gardner Cowles, Vice Chairman; Henry
Allen Moe, Vice Chairman; David Rockefeller,
Vice Chairman; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd,
President; J. Frederic Byers III, Vice President;
Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, Vice President; James
Thrall Soby, Vice President
Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss, Robert R. Barker,
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.,* Mrs. Armand P. Bartos,
Gordon Bunshaft, Shirley C. Burden, William
A. M. Burden, Ivan Chermayeff, Mrs. C. Doug
las Dillon, Neal J. Farrell, Mrs. Edsel B. Ford,*
Gianluigi Gabetti, George Heard Hamilton,
Wallace K. Harrison,* Mrs. Walter Hochs-
child,* Mrs. John R. Jakobson, Philip Johnson,
Mrs. Frank Y. Larkin, Gustave L. Levy, John L.
Loeb, Ranald H. Macdonald ,* Mrs. G. Maccul-
loch Miller,* J. Irwin Miller, Samuel I. New-
house, Jr., Richard E. Oldenburg, Mrs. Charles
S. Payson,* Peter G. Peterson, Gifford Phillips,
Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mrs. Wolfgang Schoen-
born,* Mrs. Bertram Smith, Mrs. Alfred R.
Stern, Mrs. Donald B. Straus, Walter N. Thay
er, Edward M. M. Warburg,* Mrs. Clifton R.
Wharton, Jr., Monroe Wheeler,* John Hay
Whitney
*Honorary Trustee for Life
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9
ANTHONY CARO 13
NOTES 175
CHRONOLOGY 179
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS 188
BIBLIOGRAPHY 191
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS 196