Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970 Katy read History of Art

Katy read History of Art at the University of Warwick and the Courtauld Institute of Art and has curated exhibitions on various themes in Modern British art

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Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970 Katy read History of ArtAn amorphous lump of plaster and latex. A tangled web of enameled aluminium loops. Hanging lengths of fibers woven into chains. Tempera, glue and sand scratched across a canvas. A multitude of materials are here: twisted, balanced, sewn, stacked, stretched, etched and molded into an array of sculptural forms. In the two decades following the second World War, whilst navigating seismic cultural, social and political shifts, women artists forged new