Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf from 1977, and has been a professor since 1988. He works and exhibits occasionally in the United States, but from 1977 has lived in Wuppertal, Germany. In the early 1970s, he worked as a laborer in an iron foundry, but he first earned a reputation as... Read full biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tony Cragg became one of the leading contemporary installation* artists of the later part of the 20th century. He is known for the wide diversity and unpredictability of his materials which include glass, porcelain, rubber, tree trunks and metals--anything that is in the material world. He first worked as a laboratory technician, and then studied at Wimbledon School of Art, and from 1973 to 1977, the Royal College of Art. He taught at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf from 1977, and has been a professor since 1988. He works and exhibits occasionally in the United States, but from 1977 has lived in Wuppertal, Germany. In the early 1970s, he worked as a laborer in an iron foundry, but he first earned a reputation as a sculptor in 1978 to 1982 for arranging found materials such as plastic, wood and tin cans in abstract imagery.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s