Thinking Big | Concepts for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture

This book, with its wealth of information about contemporary British sculpture and striking photographic images, was occasioned by the exhibition Thinking Big: Concepts for Twenty-first Century British Sculpture, held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (the Italian branch of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), from September 2002 - January 2004, and jointly organised with Sculpture at Goodwood.

The Thinking Big exhibition offered a microcosmic view of contemporary British sculpture: 85 small-scale works by artists born in seven different decades of the previous century, produced in every conceivable material - from glass and bronze to rubber and photographic paper. It can be perceived as a celebration of the range and variety of sculpture in Britain, viewed Lilliput-like from on high by the visitor whose size will be ten times that of most of the objects on show. But it is also, more fundamentally, a kind of creative laboratory where the processes of realising a sculpture are opened up both physically and conceptually and where the scale of thought and ambition is often immense.