Barbara Hepworth, unknown and Icon (1957); Discovery One spacecraft from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Barbara Hepworth, Oval Sculpture (No. 2) (1943); EVA pod from 2001; Barbara Hepworth, Spring (1966); Death Star from Star Wars (1977).
July 14, 2009...8:52 am
Barbara Hepworth in space
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July 14, 2009 at 9:28 am
this looks really good, really spacy,
July 19, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Interesting. So you are saying that Barbara Hepworth was the fore-runner to space, or to science fiction films?
July 19, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I mean that the people who design space ships for SF films were inspired by her. That Modernism still seemed modern when the first Star Wars was made in 1977. Funny that this futuristic stuff now looks dated, though I don’t think there’s been anything to replace it apart from the dystopian post-apocalyptic Mad Max vision, which is mostly just a disaster-stricken present.
Real space ships look a mess.