芭芭拉•赫普沃斯是20世纪最重要的艺术家之一，但与她的男性同行相比，关于她的专著却相对较少。这本传记对赫普沃斯非凡的人生、作品和遗产提出了精辟的见解。

这本图文并茂的传记首次反映了赫普沃斯多面性、跨学科和建立人际关系网的手法，前所未有地揭示了她在音乐、舞蹈、诗歌、当代政治、科学和技术方面的兴趣；她如何通过朋友和人际关系网以及她的艺术实践与这些领域建立密切联系；以及她如何将有时看似冲突的学科和思想综合成一种连贯的、鼓舞人心的艺术和人生哲学。

Barbara Hepworth is one of the most important artists of the 20th century, yet she has been the subject of relatively few monographs in comparison to her male counterparts. This biography moves beyond the traditional narratives of modernism, truth to materials, and the landscape to provide a penetrating insight into Hepworth's remarkable life, work and legacy.

This fully illustrated biography reflects for the first time Hepworth's multi-faceted, interdisciplinary and networked approach, shedding light as never before on her interests in music, dance, poetry, contemporary politics, science and technology; her engagement with these fields through friends and networks as well as her artistic practice; and the ways in which she synthesized sometimes seemingly conflicting disciplines and ideas into one coherent and inspirational philosophy of art and life.