Nash, David. The Sculpture of David Nash
Nash, David. The Sculpture of David Nash
Andrews, Julian. The Sculpture of David Nash. 1999, London, Lund Humphries in association with The Henry Moore Foundation,180 pages, includes 16 color and 240 b&w illustrations. Paperback, new $40
David Nash (born 1945) has built up an international reputation as a sculptor in a career spanning just thirty years. This new paperback edition of The Sculpture of David Nash is essential reading for all those who share an interest in Nash's career and work.
David Nash's first one-man exhibition took place in 1973 in York, since when there have been over eighty solo exhibitions of his sculptures and drawings, many of them outside the UK. His work is held in public art galleries and private collections all over the world.
Nash works predominantly in wood. His early works used standard milled planks, but he moved on to making sculptures out of whole tree trunks and limbs - working with the behaviour of the unseasoned wood as it dries out, cracking and warping. More recently he has initiated long-term 'growing' sculptures, coaxing groups of living trees to form 'spaces'. Throughout his career he has maintained a studio in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, working with the seasons and the elements.
The Sculpture of David Nash is the first publication to review the entire range of Nash's work, and to consider it in the context both of sculptural precedents and influences, and of some of the key issues affecting contemporary sculpture. It addresses the rigour of Nash's concern with geometric form, and examines the genesis of his major pieces, from sculptures made at art college, through his first period of working in Wales, and subsequent phases, to recent developments in the 1980s and 1990s.
Julian Andrews' narrative, produced in close collaboration with the artist, presents Nash's work in terms of themes, drawing formal relations between works which are highlighted through the illustrations accompanying the text. Seventeen key works are illustrated as colour plates. The main text is supported by comprehensive reference material, comprising chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions, public collections, and works in open space.
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