Download or read book The British School of Sculpture C 1760 1832 written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Public Sculpture of the City of London written by Philip Ward-Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Download or read book Public Sculpture of North East England written by Paul Usherwood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century written by Alan Windsor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published 2003. In the twentieth century, Britain was rich in artistic achievement, especially in sculpture. Just some of those working in this field were Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, Mona Hatoum and Anish Kapoor. The work of these and other known and less well-known artists has an astonishing variety and expressive power, a range and strength that has placed Britain at the hub of the artistic world. Alan Windsor has compiled a concise biographical dictionary of sculpture in Britain in book form. Richly informative and easy-to-use, this guide is an art-lover's and expert's essential reference. Written by scholars, the entries are cross-referenced and each concise biographical outline provides the relevant facts about the artist's life, a brief characterization of the artist's work, and, where appropriate, major bibliographical references.
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660 1851 written by Emma Elizabeth Hardy and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The editorial team, and invited experts in the field, have drawn on a mass of archival and scholarly material, including Gunnis's own extensive unpublished archive, to rewrite all the major lives of the sculptors, and to add over 1,000 new ones. Each entry gives a brief biography of the sculptor, where possible, followed by a list of his or her known works. Each work is identified by date and location, past or present, and provenance, materials, exhibitions, known preparatory sketches and models, and bibliographical references are also recorded." "The dictionary is a treasure trove of information for sculpture, architectural and art historians. It will also be of great interest to enthusiasts and collectors, and to those with a general interest in British cultural history who wish to identify or locate works of sculpture in Britain and to learn more about the artists who created them."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Sculpture in Britain 1530 1830 written by Margaret Dickens Whinney and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mother Stone the Vitality of Modern British Sculpture written by Anne Middleton Wagner and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book On a Pedestal written by Roger Lytollis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them. As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's Beatles statue convinced that Rod Stewart was in the Fab Four. In Edinburgh he walks into a row over Greyfriars Bobby's nose and in Glasgow learns why the Duke of Wellington wears a traffic cone on his head. London brings a controversial nude statue and some hard truths about racism. Elsewhere, Roger sees people dancing with Eric Morecambe, finds a statue being the backdrop to a marriage proposal and, everywhere he goes, pigeons. Always pigeons . . . On a Pedestal is the first book to examine public statues around the nation. It looks at their emergence into our culture wars; the trend for portraying musicians, sports stars and comedians rather than monarchs, politicians and generals; the amazing tales of many of those commemorated on our streets. It also features interviews with sculptors, including Sir Antony Gormley, telling the stories behind some of our most popular modern statues. Part history book, part travelogue, On a Pedestal brings statues to life. Informative and entertaining, it's a book that - ultimately - is more about blood than bronze.
Download or read book British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern British Sculpture written by Penelope Curtis and published by Tate Publishing(UK). This book was released on 1988 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Sculpture in Britain Essays 79 written by Jon Wood and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1982 essay, at a time of disillusionment with the idea of progress, Michael Newman discusses how British sculptors employed a variety of means - from recycling discarded objects to synthesising cultural archetypes - in what amounts to a rejection of the linear view of history, concluding with Tony Carter's, By Bread Only - for the Demise of Icons (1978-9), recently acquired for the Leeds Museums and Galleries Sculpture Collections.Jon Wood and Michael Newman discuss the place of Carter and his work in the field of sculpture in the early 1980s and consider this work's inclusion in Whitechapel Art Gallery's British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century catalogue, but not, in the end, in the actual exhibition. Newman also gives his thoughts on his 1982 essay today.The essays also examine the work of other important British artists including Tony Cragg, Bill Woodrow, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Kate Blacker, Alison Wilding, Antony Gormley, Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Anish Kapoor.Accompanies the two exhibitions, Sculpture by Another Name: Tony Carter's 'By Bread Only' (21 February -20 May 2018) at Henry Moore Institute, and The Sculpture Collections (22 March - 2 September 2018) at Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery.Includes an essay by Jon Wood and a reprint of, New Sculpture in Britain by Michael Newman (first published in Art in America, 1982).Photo Credit: Tony Carter, 'By Bread Only - For the Demise of Icons' 1978-9, Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery). Installation view at the Henry Moore Institute, photo: David Cotton.
Download or read book Sculpture in Britain 1530 To1830 written by Margaret Whinney and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe written by Imogen Hart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain C 1880 1930 written by David Getsy and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, accompanied by a large number of illustrations and some maps and plans, explore how certain individuals pursued a modern ideal in British sculpture over the period 1880 to 1930.
Download or read book Public Sculpture in Britain written by Geoff Archer and published by Strange Chemistry. This book was released on 2013 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Public Sculpture in Britain' is entertaining, highly illustrated and educative at the same time. It is full of art and ingenuity too, though for many reader the book's most useful quality is clarity, for instance when recalling lost sculptures, or untangling the last few decades with hundreds of new arrivals.
Download or read book United Enemies written by Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, England) and published by Henry Moore Foundation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition at Henry Moore Institute, 1 December 2011-11 March 2012.
Download or read book Modern British Sculpture written by Penelope Curtis and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 January - 7 April 2011"-- T. p. verso.
