Phillip King obituary

Sculptor at the forefront of a 1960s revolution in his discipline whose work explored basic forms and new materialsIn 1956, Phillip King, then a student of modern languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge, enquired casually at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London, if there was an art school nearby. “There’s one next door,” was the reply. At St Martin’s School of Art King encountered Anthony Caro, who was teaching there. Back in Cambridge, King mounted a show