Author: Raymond McKenzie
Publisher:
ISBN: 0853239274
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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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: George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853239894
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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The "Black Country" is an area historically known as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution—a thriving regioin built around deep coal seams, conjuring up images of fiery red furnaces by night and black, sooty citadels by day. Yet today the resource-rich region also features many striking public sculptures. This volume provides a comprehensive catalog to all of the historic sculptures and public monuments in Staffordshire and the Black Country. George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse catalog each individual sculpture in detail, including information about the sculptor, the sculpture's historical and artistic significance, the commissioning agent, and the date of installation. The volume also features 350 black-and-white photographs that document the diverse and rich beauty of the region's public monuments. The ninth volume in the widely acclaimed, award-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country is an invaluable resource for British historians, art scholars, and travelers alike.
Author: Terry Wyke
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853235678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester is a complete catalog and illustrated guide to all of Greater Manchester's public sculptures and monuments. Manchester historian Terry Wyke provides detailed individual entries for each sculpture featured, including information about the artist and the commissioning agent, date of installation, and the sculpture's historical and artistic significance. More than 350 black-and-white photographs reveal the diversity and beauty of Manchester's many public monuments. The eighth volume in Liverpool University Press's highly acclaimed and prize-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester will be an incomparable resource for both armchair and actual travelers, as well as for English historians and art scholars alike. "These are excellent volumes in an outstanding and continuing series, one of the most original and important such projects under way. They set an international standard for the recording and publication of public sculpture."—Judging panel, 2003 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, on the Public Sculpture of Britain series
Author: Geoff Holder
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752448268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is the essential guide to everything strange, marvelous, mysterious, and paranormal in Glasgow, with a street-by-street description of everything bizarre and supernatural connected with the city. As well a complete guide to all of the city's gargoyles, legends, and relics, it includes tours of the Necropolis, the cathedral, museums both famous and little-known, and all of Glasgow's hidden archeological wonders. Illustrated by more than 100 stunning photographs and filled with countless strange tales, from the links between St. Mungo, Merlin, and werewolves to the urban legends of the Glasgow Underground, it will transform the way you experience the city.
Author: Matthew Withey
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848220010
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This final volume in the British Sculptors and Sculpture series addresses the work of the important but neglected British sculptor Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871-1926). A student of Edouard Lanteri at the Royal College of Art, Derwent Wood's early artistic career was distinguished. His reputation grew rapidly and a period as Director of Modelling at the Glasgow School of Art saw him working on public commissions with many of the city's most important architects. Simultaneously, he built his London practice, perfecting the art of the rapidly executed, observationally astute portrait bust, and becoming a well-connected member of the Chelsea set. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1895 until his death in 1926, becoming a full Academician in 1920. During the First World War he carried out pioneering work in the field of facial prosthetics. He was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1918, where Henry Moore was amongst his many pupils. Derwent Wood's Machine Gun Corps memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, completed in the year of his death, is amongst the best-known and most consistently reviled sculptures in Britain. Matthew Withey offers readers a subtle and layered interpretation of the career that led up to this iconic and misunderstood work, together with a comprehensive catalogue of Derwent Wood's diverse body of work.
Author: Cameron Cartiere
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113589468X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history.
Author: Kenny Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781873331255
Category : Citizen Firefighter (Strathclyde, Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Author: Ian R Mitchell
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1909912735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of Glasgow and its history, in a small way trying to boost the esteem in which such places are held by the people who live in there and by those who visit. Moving away slightly from the working class focus, this third instalment presents a broad view of Glasgow's industrial, social and intellectual history. From public art to socialist memorials, and from factories to cultural hubs, Ian Mitchell takes the reader on a guided tour of Glasgow, outlining walking routes which encompass the city's forgotten icons.
Author: Cameron Cartiere
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317572025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and Willis), and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists, curators, activists, writers and educators from North America, Europe and Australia, who offer divergent perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The collection examines the continual evolution of public art, moving beyond monuments and memorials to examine more fully the development of socially-engaged public art practice. Topics include constructing new models for developing and commissioning temporary and performance-based public artworks; understanding the challenges of a socially-engaged public art practice vs. social programming and policymaking; the social inclusiveness of public art; the radical developments in public art and social practice pedagogy; and unravelling the relationships between public artists and the communities they serve. The Everyday Practice of Public Art offers a diverse perspective on the increasingly complex nature of artistic practice in the public realm in the twenty-first century.
Author: Jude Burkhauser
Publisher: Canongate
ISBN: 9781841951515
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less attention. In this work, the editor redresses this imbalance, bringing together research from 18 scholars on the work of an astonishing number of female artists from this period.
