Author: Taylor & Francis Group Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367787240 Category : Sculpture Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760-1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more generally in the period and beyond, the book contains nine wide-ranging case studies that consider the place of antique and modern sculpture in British country houses in the period, monuments to heroes of commerce and the Napoleonic Wars, the key debates fought around ideal sculpture at the Royal Academy, the reception of British sculpture across Europe, the reception of Hindu sculpture deriving from India in Britain, and the relationship of sculpture to emerging industrial markets, both at home and abroad. Challenging characterisations of the period as 'neoclassical', the volume reveals British sculpture to be a much more eclectic and various field of endeavour, both in service of the state and challenging it, and open to sources ranging from the newly arrived Parthenon Frieze to contemporary print culture.
Author: Paul Usherwood Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
Documents some 450 public monuments and sculptures of the northeast of England. Entries on each piece contain bandw photos and details on materials, physical conditions, ownership and commissioning, and use and interpretation at various times in history. From this emerges a picture both of the development of public sculpture and monuments in the region and of the contribution these objects make to ideas of local identity. Material is arranged geographically. Includes bandw maps, a glossary, introductory essays, and brief biographies of sculptors and architects. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Philip Ward-Jackson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 556
Book Description
As the financial capital of the British Empire, the City commissioned imposing statues of those who had made it what it was. More surprising is the wealth of architectural sculpture, including the friezes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the most important of the 'New Sculpture'.
Author: Anne Middleton Wagner Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies ISBN: 9780300106855 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their shared avant-garde materialism, and identifies a common theme that runs through their work and that of other artists of the period: maternity. Why were artists for three turbulent decades after the First World War seemingly preoccupied with representations of pregnant women and the mother and child? Why was this the great new subject, especially for sculpture? Why was the imagery of bodily reproduction at the core of the effort to revitalize what in Britain had become a somnolent art? Wagner finds the answers to these questions at the intersection between the politics of maternity and sculptural innovation. She situates British sculpture fully within the new reality of “bio-power”—the realm of Marie Stopes, Brave New World, and Melanie Klein. And in a series of brilliant studies of key works, she offers a radical rereading of this sculpture’s main concerns and formal language.
Author: Imogen Hart Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501341278 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics, it brings to centre stage makers, objects, concepts and spaces that have been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design discourse. These essays challenge the classed, raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.
Author: Viccy Coltman Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191609536 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman contrasts the precarious and competitive culture of eighteenth-century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior back home in Britain, with the study and publication of individual specimens by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 photographs.
Author: Raymond McKenzie Publisher: ISBN: 0853239274 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 538
Book Description
This volume contains important sculptures by most of the greatest British sculptors and some continental sculptors - John Flaxman, Auguste-Nicolas Cain, John Gibson, Francis Chantrey, Carlo Marochetti, Hamo Thornycroft, George Frampton, J. H. Foley and many others." "The study of architectural sculpture, falling between the history of art and the history of architecture, has been until very recently generally neglected - even by that great pioneer, Rupert Gunnis. Ray Mackenzie has in this volume for the first time demonstrated the importance of Glasgow's architectural sculpture and explained its function with a wealth of detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Guy Portelli Publisher: Schiffer Art Books ISBN: 9780764321115 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive study of modern sculpture developments in Great Britain, this beautiful book showcases 95 leading sculptors from the second half of the 20th century. It concentrates on the most influential, award-winning, and highly valued works from the growing field of popular sculpture availabe today. 780 color and black and white photographs display the wide range of materials, themes, styles, and settings that convey each sculptor's classical, figurative, abstract, or visionary work.
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Author: Paul Usherwood
Author: Philip Ward-Jackson
Author: Anne Middleton Wagner
Author: Imogen Hart
Author: Viccy Coltman
Author: Martina Droth
Author: Raymond McKenzie
Author: Guy Portelli
Author: Lawrence Stone