Frontier Sculpture & Monuments
Frontier Sculpture & Monuments
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.
416pp, 270 illus (mono), p/b,
ISBN: 978-1-872914-38-1. £30(Click on blue title for full description and more pictures).
John Bell - The
Sculptor’s Life & Works Richard Barnes.
The first book about John Bell,1811-1895, who was linked to Henry Cole
and Prince Albert in the Socety of Arts leading up to The Great Exhibition.
The
sculptor made grand monuments in London, and also worked with manufacturers,
his statues being first in Coalbrookdale’s iron, largest in Doulton’s terracotta and most popular in Minton’s
Parian ceramic. Chronological biography, list of works, illustration
and British Art history.
192pp. H/b. ISBN: 978-1-872914-19-0. £42.00
The Year of Public Sculpture - Norfolk. Richard Barnes.
Sculpture is the commemorative art and Norfolk memories are brought to
focus on statues. In 2000-2001, the year of public Sculpture, The Eastern
Daily
Press printed 35 features with colour photographs spotlighting individual
works,
sculptors’ lives and Norfolk history.
48pp.p/b. Colour throughout. ISBN: 978-1-872914-22-0. £7.95
Artist of an Icon / The
Memoirs of Arnold Machin RA
The artist who created the Queen’s Head on British postage stamps, the
most reproduced image of all time. From Minton apprentice in the Potteries
in
1925 to RA Professor of Sculpture.
224pp, inc 100 col ills, h/b, ISBN: 978-1-872914-23-7. £35.00
The Obelisk - A Monumental Feature in Britain. Richard
Barnes
Nobody considered Britain's obelisks before, preferring to regard them
as inferiors to the magnificent obelisks of Egypt. Britain has roughly
3,000
obelisks and
the sculpture and travel author traces history from when Englishmen saw
the Egyptian obelisks in Rome. The first obelisk arrived in England c1570
and
by the 1700s obelisks were raised with new uses, as landmarks, hilltop
eyecatchers, milestones etc. Monolithic obelisks in polished granite
streamed into the
new
cemeteries in the 19th century and soon after a thousand WWI war memorial
obelisks were added. Includes J.Bell’s lectures on obelisks and ends
with a gazetteer of Britain's obelisks.
240pp h/b inc 80 colour & mono photos, ISBN: 978-1-872914-28-2 £35.00
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