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Roy Noakes
Roy Noakes (June 10, 1936 - February 9, 2002) was a British sculptor. Early life All of the young British sculptors who emerged in the 1950s had to engage with the towering international reputation of Henry Moore, and with the associated fallacy that direct carving was congruent with modernity. But at least the weight of Moore’s eminence was a crucial factor in provoking a reaction; Roy Noakes embarked on a fascinating and important journey in a very different direction. Noakes dedicated his life to evolving an alternative sculpture, sculptural language, one concerned with transience and lightness, to conveying fleeting appearances and gestures with economy of means - pared down, that is, in the sense of needing to eliminate everything that was extraneous to the inner energy of his forms. He worked outside the mainstream or avant-garde cultural orthodoxies of his time, neither a brutalist, a conceptual art, conceptualist, nor involved with smooth or shiny surfaces that were ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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