1913: The Shape of Time (No. 66)

Descriptions

Individual years have often caught the attention of cultural theorists and historians of art, literature and ideas, offering up snapshot insights into groundbreaking moments of cultural change. It is easy to see why 1913 has received such attention, given the compelling power of so many of the artworks made in this year.

This issue of our journal Essays on Sculpture investigates how sculpture was uniquely positioned in 1913 to give shape to new ideas through its materiality, spatiality and the power of its ancient figurative traditions. Artists discussed include Alexander Archipenko, Vladmir Baranov-Rossiné, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jacob Epstein, Emil Filla, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Eric Gill, Otto Gutfreund, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Ardengo Soffici.

Written by Jon Wood (Research Curator, the Henry Moore Institute), with a timeline compiled by Pavel S. PyÅ› (Exhibitions & Displays Curator, the Henry Moore Institute).