Public Sculpture Of Staffordshire And The Black Country

Author : George Thomas Noszlopy,Fiona Waterhouse
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780853239895

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Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country by George Thomas Noszlopy,Fiona Waterhouse Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781846316418

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Liverpool University Press Autumn 2010 Catalogue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350190474

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Memory and Modern British Politics by Matthew Roberts Pdf

This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.

Author : Jeremy Beach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780853236825

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Public Sculpture of Birmingham by Jeremy Beach Pdf

Birmingham not only attracted major sculptors from London, but as a great manufacturing city it possessed busy workshops of local sculptors, often closely associated with its progressive and important art school. As a result the city has an extensive range of monuments and sculptures accessible to the public. This book documents this heritage as fully as possible, from the earliest surviving item to modern, recently erected sculptures.

Author : George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780853238379

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Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull by George Thomas Noszlopy Pdf

In this sixth volume of Public Sculpture of Britain, the reader is presented with some dramatic contrasts in public sculpture. Public Sculpture of Warwickshire meticulously catalogues the vast array of work that exists in this region. Richly illustrated, the book reveals how Lady Godiva in Coventry and William Shakespeare in Stratford proved in different ways irresistible subjects for public sculpture, resulting in inspirational masterpieces by Reid Dick and Ronald Gower. Close scrutiny is also given to the modern sculpture. The post war reconstruction of Coventry symbolized the whole nation's recovery on both a social and economic front, and demonstrated through some of the most dynamic and innovative sculpture of modern times. The Public Sculpture of Britain series is profusely illustrated and catalogues in great detail sculpture in Britain available to the public. It is the published outcome of the National Recording Project of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, and it will eventually cover the whole of Britain. Earlier volumes in the series covered Liverpool, Birmingham, North-East England, and Leicestershire & Rutland.

Author : Steve Bower
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781398106925

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Wolverhampton in 50 Buildings by Steve Bower Pdf

Explore the rich history of the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Author : Efterpi Mitsi,Anna Despotopoulou,Stamatina Dimakopoulou,Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030269050

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Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination by Efterpi Mitsi,Anna Despotopoulou,Stamatina Dimakopoulou,Emmanouil Aretoulakis Pdf

This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins, through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and conceptual resources.

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317314059

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James Watt, Chemist by David Philip Miller Pdf

Miller examines Watt's illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt's conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.

Author : Ric Berman MA
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802072310

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The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry by Ric Berman MA Pdf

Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, 'Free and Accepted' Masonry became part of Britain's national profile and the largest and most influential of Britain's extensive clubs and societies. The organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core at London's most influential lodge, the Horn Tavern. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression of their philosophical and political views, and the 'Craft' attracted an aspirational membership across the upper middling and gentry. Through an examination of previously unexplored primary documentation, Foundations contributes to an understanding of contemporary English political and social culture and explores how Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected the metropolitan and provincial elites. The book explores social networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the learned and professional societies, and the magistracy, and provides pen portraits of the key individuals who spread the Masonic message. Foundations and Schism (Sussex Academic, 2013), have been described as 'the most important books on English Freemasonry published in recent times', providing 'a precise, social context for the invention of English Freemasonry'. Berman's analysis throws a new and original light on the formation and development of what rapidly became a national and international phenomenon.

Author : Nicola J. Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192586834

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The Author's Effects by Nicola J. Watson Pdf

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics—Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work—Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.

Author : George Thomas Noszlopy,Fiona Waterhouse
Publisher : Liverpool University Press - P
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1846311721

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Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worchestershire by George Thomas Noszlopy,Fiona Waterhouse Pdf

This text includes works dating as far back as the 12th century, including ornamental carvings on buildings; commemorative statues; fountains and wells; and large numbers of works related to rural heritage as well as a smaller body of sculptures celebrating industry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Monuments
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111405978

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The Sculpture Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Price
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441136756

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Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian by John Price Pdf

Heroism in the 19th and early 20th centuries is synonymous with military endeavours, imperial adventures and the 'great men of history'. There was, however, another prominent and influential strand of the idea which has, until now, been largely overlooked. This book seeks to address this oversight and establish new avenues of study by revealing and examining 'everyday' heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary individuals, largely in the course of their daily lives and within quotidian surroundings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, John Price charts and investigates the growth and development of this important discourse, presenting in-depth case studies of The Albert Medal and the Carnegie Hero Fund alongside a nationwide analysis of heroism monuments and an exploration of radical approaches to the concept. Unlike its military and imperial counterparts, everyday heroism embraced the heroine and this study reflects that with an examination of female heroism. Discovering why certain individuals or acts were accorded the status of being 'heroic' also provides insights into those that recognized them. Heroism is a flexible and malleable constellation of ideas, shaped or constructed along different lines by different people, so if you want to identify the characteristics of a group or society, much can be learnt by studying those it holds up as heroic. Consequently, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian provides valuable and revealing evidence for a wide range of social and cultural topics including; class, gender, identity, memory, celebrity, and literary and visual culture.

Author : Dorothy Bentley Smith
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445676418

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No Ordinary Surgeon by Dorothy Bentley Smith Pdf

No Ordinary Surgeon centres on the fascinating story of one talented man in the nineteenth century - William Binley Dickinson.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058908859

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Art Journal by Anonim Pdf