Public Sculpture Of Staffordshire And The Black Country

Author : George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0853239894
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country written by George Thomas Noszlopy and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846316413
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111705
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics personified written by Henry Miller and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and publishers exploited new visual technology to appeal to a broad public. The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised. Beginning with an examination of the visual culture of reform, the book goes on to study how Liberals, Conservatives and Radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters, the role of group portraiture, and representations of Victorian MPs. The final part of the book examines how major politicians, including Palmerston, Gladstone and Disraeli, interacted with mass commercial imagery. The book will appeal to a broad range of scholars and students across political, social and cultural history, art history and visual studies, cultural and media studies and literature.

Author : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350190470
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Modern British Politics written by Matthew Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0853238375
Total Pages : 301 pages
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Download or read book Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull written by George Thomas Noszlopy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jeremy Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0853236828
Total Pages : 229 pages
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Download or read book Public Sculpture of Birmingham written by Jeremy Beach and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steve Bower
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398106925
Total Pages : 191 pages
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Download or read book Wolverhampton in 50 Buildings written by Steve Bower and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history of the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Author : Dorothy Bentley Smith
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445676419
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book No Ordinary Surgeon written by Dorothy Bentley Smith and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Ordinary Surgeon centres on the fascinating story of one talented man in the nineteenth century - William Binley Dickinson.

Author : Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030269051
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination written by Efterpi Mitsi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317314050
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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