Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Sculpture so Different, so Appealing? - ACE138.4

Tony Cragg’s Britain Seen From the North (1981). Nairne on the similarity of Cragg’s "found items" sculptures to those of Richard Long. More of Cragg’s work. Tony Cragg, sculptor, on "good idea art". His VO continues over his constructing New Stones – Newton’s Tones (1978), helped by his small son. Low tide mud and shingle along the Thames; objects uncovered by the receding water. Pieces from Cragg’s sculpture. His VO asking how people can deal with all the new materials regularly coming onto the market. Britain Seen From the North; people wrapped in Union Jack; Cragg’s Postcard Flag (Union Jack) (1981). Photograph of Prince Charles and Princess Diana during wedding procession. Other pieces by Cragg.