"In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B.Kitaj organised a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay.  To mark the 35th anniversary of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James Hyman Fine Art, Beyond the Human Clay presents a selection of some of the greatest British artists of the last half century"