Sculpture and the Garden
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Sculpture and the Garden
Cover
Ashgate
Hardback
196 PP
220 x 230 mm
85 B&Wand 16 colour illustrations
ISBN: 0 7546 3030 7
British Library Reference: 717
Library of Congress Reference: 2006004749
2006
In 2003 the Henry Moore Institute launched a new series, Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture, published with Ashgate, which expands upon the conventional historical frameworks in which sculpture is seen. We have become familiar with the notion that sculpture has moved into the ‘expanded field’, but this field has remained remarkably faithful to defining sculpture on its own terms. Sculpture can be distinct, but it is rarely autonomous. For too long studied apart, within a monographic or survey format, sculpture demands to be integrated with the other histories of which it is a part. In the interests in representing recent moves in this direction, this series provides a forum for the publication and stimulation of new research examining sculpture’s relationship with the world around it, with other disciplines, and other material contexts. The series embraces papers developed out of conferences initiated at the Henry Moore Institute, as well as looking elsewhere for new work which similarly expands the context for sculpture studies.
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.
Contents
Preface, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; Part 1 The Georgian landscape garden and Victorian urban park: Introduction, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; Studley Royal: landscape as sculpture, Glynis Ridley; The king in the garden: royal statues and the naturalization of the Hanoverian Dynasty in early Georgian Britain, 1714-1760, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau; Sex, gender, politics: the Venus de Medici in the eighteenth-century landscape garden, Wendy Frith; Marginal figures: public statues and public parks in the Manchester region, 1840-1914, Terry Wyke; The meaning and re-meaning of sculpture in Victorian public parks, David Lambert; Part 2 Modernism, postmodernism, landscape and regeneration: Introduction, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure, 1938, at Bentley Wood, Alan Powers; Modern sculpture in the public park: a Socialist experiment in open-air 'cultured leisure', Robert Burstow; Modernism out of doors: Barbara Hepworth's garden, Chris Stephens; 1977 - A walk across the park, into the forest, and back to the garden: the Sculpture Park in Britain, Joy Sleeman; Naturalizing Neoclassicism: Little Sparta and the public gardens of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Patrick Eyres; Bibliography; Index.
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