The leaping hare / by George Ewart Evans and David Thomson [book]
Clay figure, 1975
Newton Abbot: Country Book Club, 1974
Donated by Andrew Jezzard, 1995
While Flanagan worked with a variety of materials and forms earlier
in his career, the bronze hare became the trademark of his work in
the 1980s, and is what he is best known for today. 'The Leaping
Hare' was published - and it was read by Flanagan - around the time
that he produced the clay figure we saw yesterday. The image of the
hare, and its associations, captured his imagination and provided him
with a vehicle for artistic expression. His bronze hares are
animated in a multitude of ways; they leap, dance, box, play cricket,
look through telescopes, and so on. If you didn't know that this
book was the original source of the inspiration behind them, you
might wonder what this book is doing in a sculpture library.
