Reading Victorian Sculpture

Dunstan, Angela

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“…Such inscrutability is exemplified by Marina Warner (1993), who explores how strategies to materialise revolutionary values in the statuary along the Champs Elysees in Paris drew upon classical allusions that are largely unfamiliar in a contemporary era in which few receive a classical education. Yet Angela Dunstan (2016: 3) contends that for the Victorians themselves, many sculptures were ‘hauntingly present but rarely interrogated, monumental yet mundane, and, above all, disconcertingly difficult to read’. Despite this obsolescence, these monochrome and still likenesses of people who lived long ago continue to haunt the city.…”

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The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

Edensor

2022

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In drawing out how human lives are always already inextricably entangled with the non-human elements of the world, this paper explores how stone, as a constituent of urban materiality, provokes a wealth of emotional, sensory and affective impacts in the experience of place. The paper discusses how the sonic, tactile and visual qualities of stone contribute to the sensory and affective experience of places, shape the symbolic meanings and affective impacts of diverse memorials, and trigger a powerful sense of geological conviviality.

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The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

Edensor

2022

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“…Sculpture was nonetheless to be widely deployed to assert that empire during its Victorian zenith. 31 This was part of a contemporary statuomania, facilitated by new techniques of manufacture and replication, 32 that served differing purposes across Europe and North America. For instance, the trauma of loss or of defeat provided a context for the thousands of Civil War monuments that appeared in American cities and villages, both North and South, by the 1890s.…”

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Statues, Spatial Syntax and Surrealism: ‘History’ and Heritagescapes in Public Space

Catterall

2023

Trans. R. Hist. Soc.

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The purpose of statues in public spaces has recently become a matter of controversy. Using a 1937 quotation from the artist Paul Nash and the surrealist leader André Breton, this paper explores the circumstances in which a statue is read as appropriately – ‘in its right mind’ in their terms – situated in public space. In doing so, it draws primarily on examples from Britain, Europe and North America during the rapid expansion in the number of statues in public space from the eighteenth century onwards. The rightmindedness of a statue is shown as primarily determined not by the subject of the statue itself, or by its reception among the public, but by ways in which public authorities and local elites authorise the use of public space. Yet these authorities’ understanding of the fit between a statue and public space can vary over time. Shifts in the political context often prompt changes to where statues are seen as appropriately located. However, picking up on Nash/Breton's phrase, to place a statue in ‘a state of surrealism’ involves more than mere relocation. This is shown to require additional disruption to a statue's artistic language and/or spatial syntax.

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Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Comic Anti-Monument

Sullivan

2023

Palgrave Studies in Comedy

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Reading Victorian Sculpture

Cited by 5 publications

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The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

The affective and sensory potencies of urban stone: Textures and colours, commemoration and geologic convivialities

Statues, Spatial Syntax and Surrealism: ‘History’ and Heritagescapes in Public Space

Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus: A Comic Anti-Monument

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