Clive Barker. Sculpture | Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000

As one of the few Pop artists to work primarily with sculpture for over forty years, Barker’s creative engagement forms a particularly important part of the Pop Art story. His replications of factory-made consumer goods in gleaming metals have been linked to the exotic, the unattainable, the erotic and the romantic, and fully deserved their place on the glamorous centre stage of the art world of the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Today, his art continues to surprise with its immediacy and sense of fun that made his art so accessible from the start.This publication is the first comprehensive study of Barker’s art. It opens with an essay by Marco Livingstone, whose many publications include a definitive study on Pop Art. His in-depth discussion of key themes, punctuated by factual details of the artist’s evolution, witnesses great insight into Barker’s creative engagement. The catalogue raisonné researched by An Jo Fermon illustrates and documents for the first time Barker’s important artistic testimony to those ever-fascinating times during which popular culture emerged in post-war Britain. Thoroughly researched and lavishly illustrated, this book is essential to anybody insterested in Pop culture.