Kettle's Yard House Guide

Sebastiano Barassi

Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) was one of the leading figures of European avant-garde sculpture. Gaudier played an important role in the development of modern sculpture in Britain, working alongside Ezra Pound, Jacob Epstein, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis and others. Like many artists of his generation, his career was tragically cut short by the war. Having volunteered for the French army in the summer of 1914, he was killed in action the following year, at the age of just twenty-three. In 1930 Jim Ede, who three years earlier had acquired almost all of Gaudier’s work, published a biography of the sculptor. Entitled A life of Gaudier-Brzeska, the book was re-issued a year later with the title Savage Messiah. Ede’s book played an important role in re-establishing Gaudier’s reputation at a time when he was at risk of fading into obscurity. This new edition, published in 2011 to mark the centenary of Gaudier's arrival in Britain from France, includes previously unpublished material and new essays that re-contextualize the book art historically. It draws from the 1929 manuscript version of Ede's book, now in the archive at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, reproducing many of the drawings and photographs first used by Ede.

Winifred Nicholson Music of Colour

Arts & Photography

Nicholson, Winifred

History & Criticism

* A selection of striking images and large details throughout the book, capturing the unique techniques used by the artist * Designed to evoke paintings complex surfaces, using high quality reproduction and specialist papers and finishes to encourage engagement from readers * Major new texts by writers and critical thinkers of southern African heritage centering the book close to the artist and her work * Published to accompany exhibitions at Kettle's Yard 22 October 2024 - 16 February 2025 and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 1 March - 25 May 2025 Portia Zvavahera is one of the outstanding artists of her generation. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1985, she has developed a unique combination of print/painting techniques to register a private world of dreams, fantasies and figural constructions. She received her art education in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s, and has become recognized in the past decade as one of the foremost representatives of African figuration, showcased at the Venice Biennale in 2022, and in a number of commercial gallery exhibitions in South Africa, the US and the UK. She has not yet had a solo show in a public museum in Europe. This new publication accompanies a major exhibition, curated by Tamar Garb, which will include reproductions of brand new works created on the occasion of this exhibition alongside a selection of recent and older paintings which reveal the depth and richness of Zvavahera's practice. The focus will be on the theme of dreams, fantasy and figuration, and large details will highlight Zvavahera's innovative amalgamation of printmaking and painting techniques that build rich surfaces to create her private cosmology of creatures and contexts. The book will feature a significant new essay from curator Tamar Garb and will center around an extensive conversation between Garb, Sinazo Chiya, Tandazani Dhlakama and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela discussing Zvavahera's engagement with eros, intimacy and female-centered experience. The book will open up how Zvavahera's works emerge from dreams; being figurative without being illustrative, registering a world of feminine experience and fantasy.

Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

Bradley, Fiona

Nairne, Andrew

Chiya, Sinazo

Garb, Professor Tamar

Dhlakama, Tandazani

Gobodo-Madikizela, Professor Pumla

Issam Kourbaj

Individual Artists

Actions: The Image of the World Can be Different

Published to coincide with the exhibition Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, showing at Kettle's Yard from March 2023 Comprehensive new title on Lucie Rie; currently only a handful of books in print about her Reflects current trends/interests in studio pottery, mid-century modern style, women artists 
Lucie Rie (1902–1995) is one of the finest modern potters of the 20th century. Born and trained in Vienna, her successful early career came to a halt in 1938 when forced to leave Austria to escape the persecution of Jewish people. In exile in London, Rie established a new workshop and over five decades created highly individual bowls, vases and tableware which continue to amaze and inspire today. 
With over 150 photographs and five new essays, Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery celebrates an exceptional life of creative invention and experiment. 
With texts by Edmund de Waal, Tanya Harrod, Helen Ritchie, Eliza Spindel, Kimberley Chandler and Nigel Wood.

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery

Antony Gormley SUBJECT

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends

Nasar, Hammad

Tobin, Amy

Turner, Dr. Sarah Victoria

Richard Pousette-Dart Beginnings: A Young Abstract Expressionist in New York

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge