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Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 by David J. Getsy (Hardcover, 2004)

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ISBN-13: 9780300105124, 978-0300105124. Body Doubles Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905. Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Publisher: Yale University Press, United States.

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Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the ?New Sculpture? movement sought a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for the first time the art-theoretical concerns of the late-Victorian sculptors, focusing on their attitudes toward representation of the human body. David J. Getsy uncovers a previously unrecognized sophistication in the New Sculpture through close study of works by key figures in the movement: Frederic Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Hamo Thornycroft, Edward Onslow Ford, and James Havard Thomas. These artists sought to activate and animate the conventional format of the ideal statue so that it would convincingly stand in for both a living body and an ideal image. Getsy demonstrates the conceptual complexity of the New Sculptors and places their concerns within the larger framework of modern sculpture.