Daemons and angels

A biography of controversial sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish ghetto of New York, but by his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world. This work contains an account of his tangled private life and its resonance in his work. A biography of controversial sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish ghetto of New York, but, by his death in 1959, he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world. This work contains an account of his tangled private life and its resonance in his work.