Body doubles : sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 / David J. Getsy.
Edition:
1st ed.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-233) and index.
Contents:
Frederic Leighton's Athlete Wrestling with a Python and the theory of the sculptural encounter -- Animating the classical : Hamo Thornycroft's experimentation with the ideal statue, 1878-84 -- "Licentious plasticity" : Alfred Gilbert and sculpture beyond the body, 1884-1886 -- "Hard realism" : the thanatic corporeality of Edward Onslow Ford's Shelley Memorial -- Figural equivalence and equivocation : James Havard Thomas and the Lycidas "scandal" of 1905 -- Conclusion : "caressability" and the formulation of modernist sculpture in Britain.