This Biography realtes to the preceding Essay Chapters:
Essay Front Page
- Introduction
- Cornwall
- Changing Influences
- Adapting Materials
- The Finale
- My Reaction
Biography – Books and resources worth looking at on Barbara Hepworth
- Barbara Hepworth (World of art library, artists) -
A. M Hammacher 1987
- Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives -
Matthew Gale, Chris Stephens 2001
- Barbara Hepworth: Centenary -
Chris Stephens
- Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms -
Festing, Sally 1995 (a more biographical look at Hepworth and her work)
- A Retrospective
– Alan Wilkinson Penelope Curtis 1994-5
- Barbara Hepworth: A Memoir –
Margaret Gardiner 1982
- St. Ives 1883 - 1993: Portrait of an Art Colony -
Whybrow, Marion
- Imagine - Barbara Hepworth : shapes from feelings -
BBC television documentary, presented by A Yentob.
- British Pathe Online Archive -
Internet resource; some film footage of Hepworth working and her works at sculpture exhibitions, but best of all a short video of an 1973 interview of Hepworth speaking about her sculpture the Family of Man.
- BBC.co.uk -
website, the BBC have made available online radio interviews with various famous artists and thinkers including a Hepworth 1956 radio interview. Also available are a limited number of recent radio programmes on Her, worth using the search facility to find out more.
- Tate Online -
tate.org.uk, the online Tate gallery most useful for viewing images of the artist’s paper based works.
I have listed above some books and other resources. With the spread of new technology, the Internet can provide a useful. I have listed the three I found the most use - they are the ones that had the best resources. I was especially delighted to find the video of Hepworth talking about the Family of Man, as it gave a feel of how Hepworth herself talked and described her work.