The Art of Elisabeth Frink

Very collectable book with a huge number of illustrations of the work of the artist Elisabeth Frink.  Published by Lund Humphries a 1972 a standard First Edition, with an Introduction by Edwin Mullins. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has a small tear in top corner. Clean condition, price unclipped, boards in clean condition, 149 full page plates pages bright and clean. Frink studied at the Guildford School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) (1946–1949), under Willi Soukop, and at the Chelsea School of Art (1949–1953).^[8] She was part of a postwar group of British sculptors, dubbed the Geometry of Fear school, that included Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi.^[9] Frink's subject matter included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious motifs, but very seldom any female forms. Bird (1952; London, Tate), one of a number of bird sculptures, and her first successful pieces (also Three Heads and the Figurative Tradition) with its alert, menacing stance, characterizes her early work.^[10] She created a bookrest in the form of an eagle, for the lectern of the new Coventry Cathedral, as well as a canopy for its Bishop's throne.^[11]