- Venue
- Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
- Starts
- Friday, January 16, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, March 15, 2009
- Address
- Royal Pump Rooms The Parade Leamington Spa CV32 4AA
- Location
- West Midlands
Bringing together sculptures and works on paper from the Arts Council Collection, 'Geometry of Fear' explores the generation of sculptors that emerged in the post-war years and created work in direct response to the horros of the Holocaust, World War II and the climate of fear generated by the Cold War. The spiky, twisted forms were described at the time by art historian Herbert Read as belonging 'to the iconography of despair, or of defiance'.This exhibition, one of the Arts Council's Spotlight series, includes key works of the period, such as Reg Butler's 'Girl and Boy' (1951), Eduardo Paolozzi's 'The Cage' (1951) and Kenneth Armitage's 'Figure Lying On Its Side' (1957), as well as works by Henry Moore and Grham Sutherland.
