Epstein Jacob "Rock Drill" et l'hommemachine
Jacob Epstein's The Rock Drill appears twice in the new exhibition The Vorticists at London's Tate Britain. The first time it's a Faustian dream of technological power and transformation,.
Jacob Epstein, Rock Drill Torso, bronze, 191314 Tate Brit… jacquemart Flickr
124. Jacob Epstein's "Torso in Metal from Rock Drill" sculpture at the Tate Britain. Sailko/cc by 3.0. When the American-British artist Jacob Epstein began his "Rock Drill" sculpture in 1913.
Jacob Epstein’s “Rock Drill” 191315 The London Group
1 other work identified How we identified these works Licensing Feedback Jacob Epstein. The Rock Drill. 1913-14 (cast 1962). Bronze. 28 x 26" (71 x 66 cm) on wooden base. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. 155.1962. Painting and Sculpture
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'Rock Drill' was created in c.1915 by Jacob Epstein in Cubism style. Find more prominent pieces of sculpture at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.
Benedict Romain's Artistic Research Jacob Epstein The Rock Drill
The origins of Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill (1913) and its meanings have been historically confused by two historical coincidences: the date of execution is the same as that of Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, his first ready made and the year 1913 is the last year before the Great War.
Epstein Jacob "Rock Drill" et l'hommemachine
Rock Drill 1913, sculpture by Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) In 1907, soon after Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) arrived in London at the age of 25, he was offered a momentous commission.
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A reconstruction of Jacob Epstein's 'Rock Drill' (1913-1915), created in 1973-1974 by Ken Cook and Ann Christopher. The reconstruction was funded by the Arts Council for a 1974 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery 'Vorticism and its Allies', curated by Richard Cork. It was made by copying the torso from the bronze 'The Rock Drill' in Tate.
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Exploring the new feeling of power in the industrial age, Jacob Epstein originally placed a plaster version of this figure on top of a commercial rock drill. After the machines of the First World War killed unimaginable numbers of people, Epstein's attitude to machines changed.
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discussed in biography In Sir Jacob Epstein.strongest work of the period, The Rock Drill (1913), was modeled in plaster, and its robotlike form reflects his short-lived interest in sleek, abstract design. Read More
Benedict Romain's Artistic Research Jacob Epstein The Rock Drill
Details Title: Torso in Metal from the 'Rock Drill' Creator: Jacob Epstein Date Created: 1913/1916 Physical Dimensions: w640 x h730 x d340mm Type: Sculpture Rights: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o.
‘Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill’‘, Sir Jacob Epstein, 191315 Tate
Epstein is one of Britain's most prominent sculptors and one of his most notable works is The Rock Drill, 1913, depicted in a pencil drawing in the collection of The New Art Gallery, Walsall.
Jacob Epstein’s “Rock Drill” 191315 The London Group
He discusses the Rock Drill, made by Jacob Epstein between 1913 and 1915, which he considers as the first work of Modernism in Britain and which he compares to Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel of the same.
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Epstein had been making drawings for and constructing "Rock Drill" from 1913. There are reports of visitors to Epstein's cold, dark, damp garage studio in Lamb's Conduit Street gasping as he threw back the tarpaulin cover to reveal the creature beneath.
Rock Drill Jacob Epstein World War One, New World, Battle Of The Somme, Art With Meaning, Star
A science-fiction monster turns its long metal snout sideways as it scans the wreckage of some endless robot war. The 20th century is an age of steel and warfare in Epstein's terrifying vision.
P. 147. Jacob Epstein, England 18801959. The Rock Drill, 19131916. Plaster on actual drill
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) was an American-born sculptor who had moved to Europe in 1902, and taken British citizenship in 1911. Although Epstein was not officially a member of the Vorticists, not having signed the Vorticist Manifesto, the full-figure sculpture has also been hailed as the pinnacle of Vorticist art. [1]
Robotic Futures Epstein’s Rock Drill 191315 The New Art Gallery Walsall
As Epstein recalled in 1940, 'It was in the experimental pre-war days of 1913 that I was fired to do the rock-drill, and my ardour for machinery (short-lived) expended itself upon the purchase of an actual drill. upon this I made and mounted a machine-like robot, visored, menacing, and carrying within itself its progeny, protectively ensconced.
