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FIGURE TOTEM BEAST : SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN IN THE 1950S

29 Oct 2018-4 Feb 2019

Tate Britain
London SW1P 4RG

Overview

The uncompromising sculpture that emerged in Britain after the Second World War. Reflecting the anxieties of the Cold War, artists used new processes and materials to make work that was often uncompromising, immediate and brutal. One critic described it as a ‘Geometry of Fear’.