{"product_id":"9798890180827","title":"Ruth Duckworth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth Duckworth\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an extensive, thoughtful monograph on the artist’s entire body of work with new scholarship, exquisite reproductions, and the complete cooperation of the Duckworth Estate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book firmly establishes the artist in the pantheon of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etwentieth-century sculptors, in a class with Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuckworth referred to herself not as a potter or ceramicist, but as a sculptor with clay, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand this volume takes her at her word, foregrounding her sculptural production. As \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmmanuelle Cooper wrote in her obituary: “In both her life and work, Duckworth’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebackground was one of non-conformity. In Germany, as a young girl, she risked prosecution by defacing a Nazi monument and resented being unable to attend art school because her father was Jewish. Most challenging of all was her determination to gain international respectability as a sculptor working primarily in clay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ruth Duckworth","offers":[{"title":"Radius Books |  Hardback | Cloth over boards |  2025-04-08","offer_id":45663914361087,"sku":"9798890180827","price":99.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCServices_9.png?v=1722008601","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9798890180827","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}