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User Review - timswings - LibraryThingOn her death in 1975, Barbara Hepworth was acclaimed as 'the greatest woman artist in the history of art'. This biography describes her Yorkshire childhood, her bohemian days and many years in St Ives ... Read full review
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A Sort of Magic i | 1 |
Grim and Wonderful Contrasts | 10 |
Finding What One Wants to Say | 18 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Barbara Hepworth: a life of forms Penguin: Biography/autobiography |
| Author | Sally Festing |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Apr 12, 2010 |
| Length | 343 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Sculpture Biography & Autobiography / General Sculptors Women sculptors |
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