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AAnntthhoonnyy CCaarroo WWiilllliiaamm RRuubbiinn Author Rubin, William, 1927-2006 Date 1975 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by New York Graphic Society ISBN 0870702750, 0870702769 Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2494 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art William 196 pages, 129 illustrations (16 in color), $17.50 William Rubin ANTHONYC ARO Anthony Caro holds a particular eminence as the artist who in recent years has most significantly extended the tradition of constructed sculpture es tablished by Picasso on the eve of World War I. Caro was the first to create large sculptures that spread out along the ground, independent of base or pedestal. In creating these pieces he broke with the "totemic" conventions of Western sculpture (still adhered to by Picasso and David Smith) in which the work rises to confront the viewer. The conse quences were of major import. As William Rubin points out, "The prevailing horizontality of Caro's sculpture makes available to him configurations hitherto unknown in sculpture. The interrelation ships of the 'ground plan' and the vertical structures that rise from it—the rhyming, the analogies, even the puns of this dialogue —open a vast range of choices." In effect, Caro's approach has enabled him "to do something utterly new—to work, for the first time in modern sculpture, in a non-pictorial, inte grally three-dimensional manner." This internationally esteemed British artist is now the subject of a comprehensive survey that reviews his early career and penetratingly analyzes his mature work, presenting the entire oeuvre to date against the historical background of twentieth- century sculpture. During the writing of this study the author had the benefit of repeated discussions with the artist. The book is not only a masterly introduction to Caro's work, but also a valuable scholarly tool, complete with chronology, bibliogra phy, list of exhibitions, and extensive notes. The abundant illustrations make this volume the most inclusive pictorial record published on Caro's achievement. William Rubin, author of numerous books on twentieth-century art, is Director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Adjunct Professor at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Cover: Anthony Caro's MIDDAY (1960), in the Sculp ture Garden of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photograph by Kate Keller. ANTHONY CARO The Museum of Modern Art New York Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Boston William Rubin ANTHONY CARO Copyright © 1975 by The Museum of Modern Art All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-21725 Clothbound ISBN 0-87070-275-0 Paperbound ISBN 0-87070-276-9 Designed by Frederick Myers Type set by Black Dot, Inc., Crystal Lake, 111. Printed by W.M. Brown & Son, Inc., Rich mond, Va. The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Printed in the United States of America Frontispiece: Anthony Caro. London, 1974 TRUSTEESO F THEM USEUMO F MODERNA RT William S. Paley, Chairman of the Board; Gardner Cowles, Vice Chairman; Henry Allen Moe, Vice Chairman; David Rockefeller, Vice Chairman; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, President; J. Frederic Byers III, Vice President; Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, Vice President; James Thrall Soby, Vice President Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss, Robert R. Barker, Alfred H. Barr, Jr.,* Mrs. Armand P. Bartos, Gordon Bunshaft, Shirley C. Burden, William A. M. Burden, Ivan Chermayeff, Mrs. C. Doug las Dillon, Neal J. Farrell, Mrs. Edsel B. Ford,* Gianluigi Gabetti, George Heard Hamilton, Wallace K. Harrison,* Mrs. Walter Hochs- child,* Mrs. John R. Jakobson, Philip Johnson, Mrs. Frank Y. Larkin, Gustave L. Levy, John L. Loeb, Ranald H. Macdonald ,* Mrs. G. Maccul- loch Miller,* J. Irwin Miller, Samuel I. New- house, Jr., Richard E. Oldenburg, Mrs. Charles S. Payson,* Peter G. Peterson, Gifford Phillips, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mrs. Wolfgang Schoen- born,* Mrs. Bertram Smith, Mrs. Alfred R. Stern, Mrs. Donald B. Straus, Walter N. Thay er, Edward M. M. Warburg,* Mrs. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Monroe Wheeler,* John Hay Whitney *Honorary Trustee for Life CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9 ANTHONY CARO 13 NOTES 175 CHRONOLOGY 179 LIST OF EXHIBITIONS 188 BIBLIOGRAPHY 191 PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS 196

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quences were of major import. As William Rubin Allen Moe, Vice Chairman; David Rockefeller, MAN TAKING OFF HIS SHIRT. 1955-56. 19 . The sculptors Willard Boepple and James Wolfe, friends of Tony. Caro, have . —besides Smith one thinks especially of Herbert Ferber and. Seymour