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Work Type:print
Date of work:1989
Materials:medium: etching and aquatint

Measurements:height: 31 in

width: 25 in

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:industrial architecture, light effect
Technique:etching, aquatint
Description:
‘John Howard's powerful etching of the soaring space inside a foundry has a hardness that is perhaps Victorian in feel with none of the romanticisation. The light pierces the gloom in this contemporary cavern but his use of the medium manages to be powerful without depending upon apocalyptic grandeur.’
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Source:“The British Telecom New Contemporaries 1989”, exhibition catalogue, 1989
Date of source:1989