Scottish Sculptors - William Lamb, Alexander Stoddart, Alexander Carrick, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ann Henderson, J. Massey Rhind (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: William Lamb, Alexander Stoddart, Alexander Carrick, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ann Henderson, J. Massey Rhind, Robert Rowand Anderson, John Steell, John Henning, Louis Deuchars, Joseph Boehm, Alexander Milne Calder, Anne Davidson, Benno Schotz, David Mach, William Birnie Rhind, William Reid Dick, George Rennie, Jimmy Boyle, George Wyllie, David Batchelor, Andy Scott, Alexander Munro, Hannah Frank, William Brodie, David McFall, G. A. Lawson, Hew Lorimer, Jim Mathieson, Julie Brook, Margery Clinton, James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Christopher Hall, James Castle, Robert Forrest, Robert Bryden, William Calder Marshall, Helen Denerley, John Rhind, John Crawford, Lawrence Macdonald. Excerpt: William Lamb (1 June 1893 - 12 January 1951) was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a survivor of the "lost generation" who came of age in 1914, and was scarred, both mentally and physically, by the First World War. Lamb completed his training in 1915 as a right-handed artist. A war wound incapacitated his right hand, so that after the war he had to retrain as a left-hander. His urge to create was in no way diminished and his preferred medium was sculpture. Lamb's most productive period was from 1924 to 1933. As a result of an education on strictly traditional lines, he developed a style of modelling that was classically accurate, but which expressed the character and background of his subject. Although he modelled Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as Princess Elizabeth aged six, in 1932, he generally eschewed the rich, the famous and the heroic. Instead Lamb settled permanently in his native Montrose, Angus, Scotland, and sculpted the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, concentrating upon working class models, especially from the fishing community. Fiercely independent, Lamb despised the young modernists and pre-war baroque fashi...