Birmingham Sculpture Trails
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
224 pages
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120 color plates
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5 x 8
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© 2007
Birmingham Sculpture Trails is the first in a new series of pocket guides to regional sculpture—this richly illustrated volume includes more than one hundred color photographs and showcases the fascinating array of monuments and sculptures that decorate England’s second city, Birmingham. As a great manufacturing city, Birmingham not only attracted major sculptors from London but also possessed busy workshops filled with its own local sculptors and metalsmiths, often closely associated with its progressive art school. This stunning volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in public sculpture, as well as a rich regional reference for those wanting to learn more about the cultural heritage of Birmingham.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Birmingham: workshop of the world
Memorial statues: the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Architectural sculpture
Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s
Developments since the early 1990s
Statues on the move
How to use this guide
Further reading
Trail 1--Victoria and Chamberlain Squares
Trail 2--Centenary Square, Broad Street and Brindleyplace
Trail 3--Central Commercial Area
Trail 4--City Centre East
The Victorian Society
Glossary
Index
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