Jacob Epstein. Rebel-angel - ACE168.4

Silber on the controversial nature of Epstein’s religious figures. Consummatum Est (1936), Ecce Homo (1934). Silber attributes some of the criticism to anti-Semitism. Coventry Cathedral; St Michael’s Victory Over the Devil (1958). Lewis on Epstein’s views. Rima (1923), the W. Hudson memorial in Hyde Park. Epstein’s words over. Press comment. Contemporary cinema news item (from Topical Budget) on Homerville Hague’s "12 hour non-stop speech against Epstein’s Rima". The London Underground Headquarters, 55 Broadway, for which Charles Holden commissioned Epstein, Henry Moore and others. Sketches by Epstein; the completed pieces of Day and Night (1928-1929); Epstein’s words. Cork VO. The Strand sculptures. Commentary relates how, in 1937, part of one statue fell off and the Government of Southern Rhodesia, then owners of the building, had most of them hacked away. Epstein’s words over commenting on this. Photograph of Epstein who received no further public commissions for another twenty years. Lewis on her mother managing the financial situation at home; sketch and bust of her. Professor James Feibleman on the Epsteins’ finances. Photograph of Epstein and Kathleen Garman; sketches of their children, Kitty, Theo and Esther. Lewis on Epstein’s two families. British Paramount News item on Epstein’s bust of Ramsay MacDonald (1934). Feibleman on the popularity of Epstein’s portraiture. Bust of Joseph Conrad (1924), Epstein’s words over. Photograph of Epstein with George Bernard Shaw; completed bust (1934) filmed with Shaw who comments on it.