ANTONY GORMLEY

Antony Gormley
An appreciation of the British artist who revitalized the human figure in sculpture. Revised and expanded editionSurvey by John Hutchinson, Update by W. J. T. Mitchell, Interview by E H Gombrich, Focus by Lela B Njatin, Artist''s Choice text by St Augustine, Writings by Anthony Gormley

Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley (b.1950) is an internationally acclaimed British artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture
The new edition of this monograph has been updated with over 50 additional pages documenting the artist''s work since 1995, including ambitious site-specific projects and monuments such as The Angel of the North (1998) and Quantum Cloud (2000)
Often cast from his own body, his lead and iron figures are sites for the exploration of states of being; his public sculptures raise key issues about the relation between art, society and the environment .

John Hutchinson is an art historian and scholar in Oriental Studies who lives and works in Ireland. After working for several years at the National Gallery of Ireland, he freelanced as a music and art critic. Since 1981 he has been Director of the Douglas Hyde Galley in Dublin. Among his publications are catalogue essays on Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, Wolfgang Laib and Toshikatsu Endo.

W. J. T. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Enquiry. He is author of Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (University of Chicago Press, 1987) and editor of The Language of Images (University of Chicago Press, 1980) and Art and the Public Sphere.

Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of co