Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism

1978 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

Tatlin, Gabo, Pevsner, Duchamp; Dada artists, Man Ray, Miro, Arp, Ernst, Calder, Giacometti, Moore, Hepworth, Richier, Cesar, Uecker, Mack, Beuys, Arman, Yves Klein, Spoerri, Tinguely, Caro, Gilbert & George. Written by Edward Fry and Nancy Rosen. Narrator George Rickey.

Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new movements and the alterations of artistic culture brought forth by World War II. Creating out of their philosophy and ideology, artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore pushed sculpture to new limits of abstraction and possibility, fervently building on their predecessors.

Biography and significance of Max Ernst on The Art Story.
Biography and significance of Gilbert & George on The Art Story.