Anthony Caro reached his 80th birthday in March 2004. For more than 60 years he has made sculpture and, in that time, his work has traced a rich and complex line across the face of 20th-century art. Numerous books, catalogues and essays have recorded each distinct stage of this line as it has evolved. The claim of the present book is that it illuminates the course of Caro's work - 'his quest for a new language for sculpture' - by assembling a sequence of contemporary writings. A principal source, particularly for the period up to the mid-1980s, is Caro's unpublished correspondence with other artists and critics. There are also interviews, published and unpublished, that Caro has given to critics and journalists, and, as counterpoint to the artist's own narrative, there is a selection of reviews, both favourable and critical. The text is accompanied by numerous images, both of the works themselves and of occasions in Caro's life.
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