Public Sculpture of North-East England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Sculpture of North-East England write by Paul Usherwood. This book was released on 2000. Public Sculpture of North-East England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country write by George Thomas Noszlopy. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester
Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester write by Terry Wyke. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
"Art in the North of England, 1979?008 "
"Art in the North of England, 1979?008 " - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Art in the North of England, 1979?008 " write by GabrielN. Gee. This book was released on 2017-07-05. "Art in the North of England, 1979?008 " available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on rare archival material and numerous interviews with practitioners, Art in the North of England 1979-2008 analyses the relation between political and economic changes stemming from the 1980s and artistic developments in the principal cities of the North of England in the late 20th century. Looking in particular at the art scenes of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle, Gabriel Gee unveils a set of powerful aesthetic reactions to industrial change and urban reconstruction during this period on the part of artists including John Davies, Pete Clarke, the Amber collective, Richard Wilson, Karen Watson, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, John Kippin, and the contribution of organisations such as Projects UK/Locus +, East Street Arts, the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust and the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool. While the geographical focus of this study is highly specific, a key concern throughout is the relationship between regional, national and international artistic practices and identities. Of interest to all scholars and students concerned with the developments of British art in the second half of the 20th century, the study is also of direct pertinence to observers of global narratives, which are here described and analysed through the concept of trans-industriality.
Sculpture and the Garden
Sculpture and the Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sculpture and the Garden write by Patrick Eyres. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Sculpture and the Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
