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The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones
Abstraction and Reality
The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones
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Description
Ivor Roberts-Jones (1913 - 1996) was one of the finest sculptors working in Britain during the twentieth century. This book is the first in-depth study of this compelling artist who was responsible for the magisterial statue of Sir Winston Churchill which stands in London's Parliament Square. It incorporates a wealth of new research and never before published images of the artist's fascinating and wide-ranging output, including his numerous major public works - such as a haunting figure of controversial painter Augustus John in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and the doomed World War I poet Rupert Brooke in Rugby, Warwickshire. It also provides the first detailed examination of Roberts-Jones's standing as one of Britain's greatest portrait sculptors for whom a wide array of impressive personalities sat. Finally it explores his significant achievement as a sculptor of wild animals and his lifelong fascination with depicting the blind and visually impaired.
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Chapter One: 'The Last of the Traditionals': A Biographical Sketch of Ivor Roberts-Jones [JB]
Chapter Two: 'The Double Edge' The Portraiture of IRJ [JB]
Chapter Three: 'Honouring a Titan': IRJ and Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square (1971–73) [JB]
Chapter Four: IRJ and The Image of Sir Winston Churchill Overseas: Oslo, New Orleans and Prague (1974–99) [Sara Ayres]
Chapter Five: 'Champion of the Monumental: IRJ and Public Sculpture Commissions (1956–96) [JB]
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
IRJ Chronology [JB]
List of Sculpture (Portrait Heads; Figures and Public Work; Miscellanous – including animal subjects)
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Jan 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781781300107 |
| Imprint | Philip Wilson Publishers |
| Illustrations | 250 colour illustrations |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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