This volume presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of the life and work of the British sculptor Frank Dobson. It contains details and illustrations of over 300 works together with sixteen colour plates. A detailed biography sets Dobson's career in the context of the development of the Modern Movement in Britain.

First full-length study of George Kennethson (1919-1994), an often- overlooked artist who carried the torch of Modernist-Primitivist sculpture in Britain after Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Frank Dobson and Henri Haudier-Brzeska.

Explores the peculiar power of the sculpted portrait and where that power comes from.

A study of the relationship between architectural sculpture and myth in Classical Greece.