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Item Number: 115028
Title: British Sculpture in India ~ New Views and Old Memories
Author: Steggles, Mary Ann ; Richard Barnes
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781872914411
Description: Kirstead: Frontier Publishing, 2011. 29cm., hardcover, 320pp., 288 illus., most in color (including Bacon, Baily, Banks, Bell, Boehm, Brock, Chantrey, Flaxman, Foley, Frampton, Gilbert, Jagger, MacKennal, Marochetti, Noble, Pomeroy, Kathleen Scott, Thornycroft, Weekes, Westmacott and Woolner). Summary: Summary: British Sculpture in India ~ New Views and Old Memories has four constituent texts. In order of sequence these are an Introductory Essay by the author and historian, Professor Tapati Guha-Thakurta, of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, placing the general subject in a modern context in India. This is followed by a Preface by Benedict Read, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Fine Art at Leeds University, Former Chairman of the PMSA and author of Victorian Sculpture, the primary source of inspiration. Next comes a list of the sculptures and about 200 concise descriptive essays written about them. Each entry is structured with the title of the work, followed by maker’s name, date and location before a pithy outline in less than 300 words, entwining subject and artist biographies, sculpture anecdotes, design details and reports on condition. The descriptions have a clear format which avoids confusion arising from dozens of Empress Victorias and other duplications, since some statues have been moved more than once. They are prepared by Richard Barnes, who has written about 19th century sculpture in books and papers. He combines this interest with a general sense of British colonial history and the illustrative dynamic of photography, which he studied at the old Regent Street Poly in the days of densitometery and glazing drums. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society and has been for ten years an ordinary member of the PMSA. He compares Bombay’s ‘Flora Fountain’ with the best and contends the equestrian works in India surpassed those in the mother country. The scope of this part of the book, which is both inventory and gazetteer, is widened to include the figurative marble memorials in the Anglican cathedrals and churches in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, adding a number of earlier works by Georgian sculptors such as Bacon Jr and John Flaxman. In terms of illustration this adds tigers, palm trees and mourning madonnas to the volume of public statues of viceroys and generals.
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