Fabio BARRACLOUGH Valls
b. 1924 or 1928?
Paintings, drawings, sculptures, arts editor and Professor of Fine Arts
Eduardo Joel Fabio Barraclough in 1977
Brief Curriculum to 1977
Further personal details can be gathered from
"The Citizen", Johannesburg - 3rd October, 1977 (PDF)
As at August, 1975, Prof. Fabio Barraclough was Hon. Director of the Gertrude Posel Gallery, Director of Exhibitions, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
He is also referred to as "Edmund Geoffrey Fabio Barraclough", signing his paintings as "Fabio y Vails"
Selected Books Published by Fabio Barraclough
"Los orígenes de la cultura contemporánea en Inglaterra" (Arbor Madrid - Special edition) (Barraclough Valls, Fabio), May 1971
"Los orígenes de la cultura contemporánea en Inglaterra" (Arbor) Revista Tomo 79 no. 305, Imp. Dioana, Madrid, 1971 123pp.
"A Sculptor's Manual" (Pergamon Press Oxford), 1971 (Barraclough, Fabio - General Editor)
Selected Art editorials and criticism listed in
Fabio Barraclough, 'Editorial', Sculpture International, no.4, 1967, p.10
Sculpture International Magazine. Published 1968 Volume 1, No 3 "Editorial", p. 12
BARRACLOUGH, Fabio: “Sculpture in Argentina: Martin Blaszko”. Sculpture International, vol. 2 nş2, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1968, pp.26-30
"Contradiction and Blaszko’s sensuality" written by Fabio Barraclough, Oxford, 1968 in Sculpture International
Quoted from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20727899/Art-Periodicals-1945-75 is the following:
In the mid 1960s sculpture achieved a temporary ascendancy over painting and this fact was confirmed by the emergence of "Sculpture International". Its editor, Fabio Barraclough, claimed in the first issue that art had entered the 'Age of sculpture' (it lasted four years!).
Contributor to
Web references to his teaching activities in the U.K.
Rugby School (http://www.bradshawfoundation.com) pp. 58, 62
"A time of Renewal" (Philip Snow), pp. 172, 282, xv - ISBN 1860641490
ISBN 0-9549833-0-0 John Robinson (Edition Limitée, Geneva, 2005) Vol. 1, p. 63
Public Collections include:
Doncaster Art Gallery and Museum, Doncaster U.K.
(Two figures protruding from the side wall of the gallery; holding an empty picture frame) commissioned after a public competition in 1963-64)
Solo Show in South Africa
Selected Articles and Reviews in South Africa
Scenaria, Johannesburg - August/September, 1977, pp. 32/33, ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 29th September, 1977, ill.
Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 2nd October, 1977, ill.
The Citizen, Johannesburg - 3rd October 1977, p. 16, ill.
Die Beeld, Johannesburg - 3rd October, 1977 (photo of A. Baldinelli, St. Mitchell and E. Villa)
The Citizen, Johannesburg - 4th October, 1977, p. 20 ("Superlative works by Fabio Barraclough")
Die Beeld, Johannesburg - 8th October, 1977
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 10th October, 1977 ("Emphasis is on the face")
Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 23rd October, 1977, ill.
Web references mainly to the artist's later political background of which Gallery 21 was not aware at the time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Barraclough, ill.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/feb/06/theobserver
http://terrybellwrites.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/how-anti-apartheid-money-funded-the-apartheid-police/
http://terrybellwrites.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/operation-daisy-and-the-art-prof-spy/
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