Cathy Corbett | The Courtauld Institute of Art (original) (raw)
I have recently completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute, on the work of Ossip Zadkine: “A Russian sculptor abroad: Ossip Zadkine and his works in wood, 1908 – 1937.”
I am interested in early twentieth-century sculpture in Britain, France and Russia, the education of sculptors in all three countries, late nineteenth- century sculptural influences, and the importance of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and Russia. I have also done research on the reception of modernist sculpture in London and Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century, and have written on Modigliani's sculpture and the links between Zadkine and Henry Moore.
My current research is on Zadkine's atelier and the students he taught, in America and Paris.
I was a Research Assistant at the Courtauld Gallery, working with Dr Ketty Gottardo on a workshop and conference on Gauguin's 'Avant et Aprés' in 2022/23.
I have a degree (BA, later MA) in Theology from the University of Oxford and a PGCE from Queens' College Cambridge.
Publications and conferences:
"A Russian Sculptor in London: Ossip Zadkine's British Beginnings." Unpublished MA thesis, Courtauld Institute, University of London, 2013
"The Forgotten Kineton Parkes Questionnaires," published online May 2016 in "3rd Dimension. The PMSA Magazine and Newsletter."
"The reinvention of an emigré sculptor" at the Courtauld Postgraduate Symposium, May 2016
"Ossip Zadkine: The reinvention of an émigré sculptor" at International Congress, "Sculpting the Sculptor" held at the University of Barcelona, 10th - 11th November 2016. Published in eBook by University of Barcelona, March 2018: Cristina Rodríguez-Samaniego & Irene Gras Valero (eds.) "Modern Sculpture and the Question of Status"
Review of GRACMON "Sculpting the Sculptor" conference, published online in 2017 in "3rd Dimension. The PMSA Magazine and Newsletter."
"Henry Moore, Edward Wadsworth and Ossip Zadkine's Figures in the Garden." Paper read at the symposium "Becoming Henry Moore," organised by the Henry Moore Foundation and Paul Mellon Foundation, 16th and 17th June 2017.
"Modigliani and the Salon d'Automne, 1912". Chapter in catalogue accompanying Modigliani exhibition at Tate Modern 23rd November 2017 - 2nd April 2018: Nancy Ireson, Simonetta Fraquelli (eds) "Modigliani", (Tate Publishing, London, 2017)
"Ossip Zadkine: The reinvention of an émigré sculptor". Essay in catalogue for Zadkine aan Zee/ Zadkine by the Sea exhibition at Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, October 2018 - Feb 2019 (Waanders Uitgevers, 2018).
"Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde". Review of the exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
The Burlington Magazine, August 2022.
'‘Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit’. Some observations on Gauguin’s references to religion(s) in Avant et après". Paper given at the online conference: Avant et après: Gauguin’s Final Words.
The Courtauld, June 2023.
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