Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300208030)

Sculpture Victorious highlights the diversity, originality, and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colorful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos, and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world. In an age of unprecedented territorial expansion, sculpture reflected the power of the British empire; at the same time, increased access to materials and resources facilitated artistic production and innovation. The partnership between art and industry was equally generative and creative, enabling daring explorations of sculpture's possibilities, both political and aesthetic. Bringing to bear a range of materials including statuary, reliefs, models, drawings, and objets d'art, as well as prints, photographs, and paintings, this stunning tome assembles, for the first time, the vibrancy, inventiveness, and modernity of Victorian sculpture.

Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Yale Center for British Art
(09/11/14-11/30/14)

Tate Britain
(02/24/15-05/24/15)

Author: Martina Droth
ISBN-10: 0300208030
ISBN-13: 9780300208030
Publisher: Yc British Art
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 6.05lbs
Size: 11.70h x 10.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1134