Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901

Edited by Martina Droth, Jason Edwards, and Michael Hatt

With contributions by Tim Barringer, Désirée de Chair, Edward S. Cooke, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, A. Robin Hoffman, Claire Jones, Tess Korobkin, Morna O'Neill, Lene Østermark-Johansen, Jennifer Powell, Catherine Roach, M. G. Sullivan, Marjorie Trusted, Sarah Victoria Turner, Caroline Vout

Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press

448 pages, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, 303 color illustrations, cloth, ISBN 9780300208030

Publication date: October 14, 2014

Description

Sculpture Victorious examines the unprecedented florescence of sculpture during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book draws together a wide range of materials to highlight the originality, inventiveness, and ubiquity of Victorian sculpture, while exploring the cultural and political role it played. As Britain became the world’s most powerful empire, sculpture was used to celebrate the nation’s prowess. Presenting an unfailingly positive vision of power, sculpture became a symbol of British invention and progress, while representing the perfect union of art and industry. This beautiful volume presents for the first time the diversity of sculptural production in the Victorian era, showing that, across nation and empire, sculpture asserted Britain’s victory and, in so doing, declared its own.

Martina Droth is Associate Director of Research and Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art. Jason Edwards is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. Michael Hatt is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick.