| Description | Includes Barry Flanagan, untitled statements, comprising of five sheets of paper, gathered by a staple at the top corner, each featuring a separate statement (c.1966). Typescript, four of the five sheets in carbon copy. Sheets of differing dimensions, with the smallest first, cascading to the final, quarto-size page, the statements increasing in length in step with the paper size. These unpublished statements relate to that contained in the invitation card for the Rowan Gallery exhibition held in London (August-September 1966) and one statement published later in the 'ICA Bulletin' (November 1966). These statements are previously unknown and complement those of this period that had appeared in 'Silans' or in the invitation card for his 1966 Rowan Gallery exhibition, providing further evidence for the influence that 'pataphysics held for him. |
| Administrative History | There are 162 works by Barry Flanagan in the Tate collection - made up of 18 sculptures, 1 film, 13 drawings and 130 prints. He was one of the most significant and consistently inventive British sculptors of his generation. First emerging in the mid-1960s in the context of the artistic experimentation typified by St Martin's School of Art, his sculpture attended to questions of material, process, form and idea and led to his work being critically received in the context of conceptual art and arte povera; an emphasis on the importance of making and craft subsequently led him to concentrate on casting from the early 1980s. |
| Custodial History | Gifted to Frederic Hunter by the artist; purchased by Andrew Sclanders Beat Books from Jill Hunter, the widow of Frederic Hunter, 2015 |