Author: Martina Droth
Publisher: Yc British Art
ISBN: 9780300208030
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book examines the unprecedented florescence of sculpture during the reign of Queen Victoria

Author: Benedict Read
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN: 9780300031775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The aim of this book is to offer an introduction to a particular, large area of artistic activity, Sculpture in Britain between about 1830 and about 1914. The fact that no such introduction exists in part explains how the book came about and its manner of presentation.

Author: Martin Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885444479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Drawn from Birmingham Museums Trust's incomparable collection of Victorian art and design, this exhibition will explore how three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers, such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them.

Author: Victoria Mills
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315400243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This volume on ‘Victorian Arts’ will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained glass.

Author: Caitlin Meehye Beach
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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From abolitionist medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains, sculpture gave visual and material form to narratives about the end of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery sheds light on the complex—and at times contradictory—place of such works as they moved through a world contoured both by the devastating economy of enslavement and by international abolitionist campaigns. By examining matters of making, circulation, display, and reception, Caitlin Meehye Beach argues that sculpture stood as a highly visible but deeply unstable site from which to interrogate the politics of slavery. With focus on works by Josiah Wedgwood, Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis, John Bell, and Francesco Pezzicar, Beach uncovers both the radical possibilities and the conflicting limitations of art in the pursuit of justice in racial capitalism's wake.

Author: Clarissa Campbell Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Examines the ideology of women's art practice and their position in the art world of Victorian Britain in relation to codes of femininity and feminist movements.

Author: JohnC. Welchman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351549499
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their contexts, group them with other objects, both similar and dissimilar, and often serve to reinforce their intrinsic or aesthetic values. The vitrine has much in common with the picture frame, the plinth and the gallery, but it has not yet received the kind of detailed art historical and theoretical discussion that has been brought to these other modes of formal display. The twelve contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture, first in the Wunderkammer and cabinet of curiosities and then in dialog with the development of glazed architecture beginning with Paxton's Crystal Palace (1851). The collection offers close discussions of the role of the vitrine and shop window in the rise of commodity culture and their apposition with Constructivist design in the work of Frederick Kiesler; as well as original readings of the use of vitrines in Surrealism and Fluxus, and in work by Joseph Beuys, Paul Thek, Claes Oldenburg and his collaborators, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Damien Hirst and Josephine Meckseper, among others. Sculpture and the Vitrine also raises key questions about the nature and implications of vitrinous space, including its fronts onto desire and the spectacle; transparency and legibility; and onto ideas and practices associated with the archive: collecting, preserving and ordering.

Author: Patrick Eyres
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351549588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Although the integration of sculpture in gardens is part of a long tradition dating back at least to antiquity, the sculptures themselves are often overlooked, both in the history of art and in the history of the garden. This collection of essays considers the changing relationship between sculpture and gardens over the last three centuries, focusing on four British archetypes: the Georgian landscape garden, the Victorian urban park, the outdoor spaces of twentieth-century modernism and the late-twentieth-century sculpture park. Through a series of case studies exploring the contemporaneous audiences of gardens, the book uncovers the social, political and gendered messages revealed by sculpture's placement and suggests that the garden can itself be read as a sculptural landscape.

Author: Jeremy Maas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Frances Lichten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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