Antony Gormley

Gormley again

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Having devoted yesterday’s post to a discussion of the work of Antony Gormley (responding to criticism of him by Lanny May Freedman) by coincidence I opened this month’s edition of Apollo magazine this morning to find an article about him.* It is interesting to find both a measure of agreement (if only implied) between the … Read more

Is Antony Gormley really all that bad?

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I’ve just finished reading the section in Lanny May Freedman’s book What Happened to Art? in which she discusses the work of Antony Gormley. It certainly gave me pause for thought, for several reasons. The primary focus of her critique is the language in which Gormley describes his own work, finding his style overblown and, … Read more