Burning to Speak: the Life and Art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska 1st Edition Hardcover in Dust Jacket 1978 by Roger Cole - Sculptor

Title: Burning to Speak: the Life and Art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska

Author: Roger Cole

Description: First Edition. Rust-colored cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Very light rubbing to tail of spine. Pages clean. Dust jacket not price clipped. DJ in clear archival sleeve. B/w illustrations. Index. 141 pp. 11.25 x 8.75 inches.

Includes a forty-six page overview and assessment of the Gaudier's life and artistic development, followed by a fully illustrated catalog of 69 of his major works, a partially illustrated catalog of 35 of his lesser works, a few of his original writings, a list of exhibitions, and a bibliography.

Burning to Speak was the result of ten years of research done by Roger Cole and is a comprehensive catalog of Gaudier's entire sculptural works as well as a critical appraisal of both the man and his achievement.

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) was a French artist and sculptor who spent nealy all his working life in England and was one of the founding members of the London Group (1913). He died young, killed during combat in the trenches of northern France.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Phaidon Press
Place: London
Year: 1978

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: biography, art, sculpture, sculptor, artist, Vorticism, modernist sculpture,