Elisabeth Frink: Humans and other animals (Exhibition and Exhibition Catalogue)
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 186152803
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This interdisciplinary project comprised an exhibition Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals held at the Sainsbury Centre, UEA (2018) and a related publication of the same name. The research questions were:
-How far has Frink’s contribution to the field of sculpture in the second half of the twentieth century been underestimated?
-How has Frink’s gender impacted on the assessment of her significance as a figurative sculptor?
-What were the main themes in Frink’s practice, which spanned 40-years?
-What links can be made between Frink and her contemporaries?
The exhibition, the largest since her 1985 retrospective at the Royal Academy, set out to reimagine Frink on the 25th anniversary of her death. The interdisciplinary research drew extensive parallels with literary as well as film sources and the relationship between literature, film and the visual artists in the post-war period. Both the exhibition and publication analysed Frink in the context of her peers such as Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, and explored the relationship of humans to animals and the use of the animal as metaphor in her work. The project provides a comprehensive analysis of the response by visual artists such as Frink, writers and filmmakers to the aftermath of the Second World War and Cold War realpolitik. The book’s principal essay, ‘Black Wings’, gives a completely new perspective on Frink, identifying the darker elements in her work and the preoccupation with aspects of human behaviour.
Both the exhibition and book revaluated Frink’s work, provided new and significant evidence-based critical analysis of the artist’s oeuvre, and identified the main themes in her 40-year career. The research was disseminated through a programme of public events to complement the exhibition and publication.
Evidence of the originality, significance and rigour of the research, and the modes of dissemination can be found in the portfolio.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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