Frontier Publishing Latest Book
Frontier Publishing Latest Book
The Glorious Dead ~ Figurative Sculpture
of British First World War Memorials
Geoff Archer
The subject is the the subtitle: it is all about the sculptural images which
connect us by memory, metal and stone to the Great War which began 95 years ago
and still fills us with awe. It is a subject that has waited decades to be gathered
together in a book; a period of time which has seen the critical dismissal and
decline of figurative sculpture, the death of those sculptors and all the men who went to the Great War. What is left to remember? The sculptures
themselves!
Geoff Archer has filled a missing gap in 20th century sculpture studies and
redeems the war memorial sculpture of the 1920s to the canon of British art history.
To open his book is an initiation.
(Click on blue title for full description
and more pictures).
416pp, 270 illus (mono), p/b, Nov 2009
ISBN: 978-1-872914-38-1. £30