Barbara Hepworth Art & Life

Barbara Hepworth is now acknowledged as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Combining public statements with her private correspondences, this fascinating biography offers a penetrating insight into the remarkable life, work and legacy of this singular artist.  It shows the disagreements Hepworth had with curators and committees who made her work appear “ladylike” through a muted presentation, which led critics to see her work as sleek, smooth and professional, when it was actually “force”, “spice” and movement that Hepworth wanted to foreground.

Eleanor Clayton is the senior curator at The Hepworth Wakefield and a specialist in British Modernism.

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