The first decades of the 20th century saw an increasing competition between two different, yet related, definitions of the sculptor. Both established professional sculptors - sometimes referred to in derisory fashion as 'gentlemen artists' - and younger, less conventionally trained artists shaped sculpture in these years. One cannot adequately understand the complex range of sculptural options in the early 20th century without taking both these 'professionals' and these young 'punks' seriously, for the members of each group constructed their identities in relation to the other.

Only now can we begin to fashion an understanding of 20th-century Britain, and with it, the meaning of sculpture, in this country, in these years. These two volumes start to retell the story of sculpture in Britain as being as much outside as inside the gallery, by immigrants as much as by the "British", and in the form of printed material as much as in primary production.Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the Henry Moore Institute, these books are a sign of the fact that the Institute has come to function as the centre of a network or community of information.

1900-1925

David Getsy

Ann Compton

Jonathan Blackwood

and Matthew Withey

Martina Droth

Nigel Halliday

1925-1950

Sue Malvern

Sarah Crellin

Anne Wagner

Andrew Stephenson

Valerie Holman

1950-1975

Chris Stephens

Margaret Garlake

Robert Burstow

Gillian Whiteley

Joy Sleeman

1975-2000

Tony Godfrey

Claire Glossop

Catherine Kinley

Andrea Tarsia

Simon Ford

Selected bibliography

Notes on contributors

Picture credits

Index

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