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1. Essay tracing developments in Watts's sculpture, from early commissioned memorials and funerary monuments, including the previously overlooked Monument to Rev. John Armistead, to independently conceived projects for colossal public works. The essay explains why, from influential naturalistic work, Watts abandoned this approach adopting an increasingly idiosyncratic anti-naturalistic style. Practical and theoretical influences on this rejection of mimetic standards are examined in relation to Watts's plans for didactic public monuments and his evolving response to the works of Pheidias. The adoption of unconventional materials and methods of construction led to his exploration of the sculptural fragment, as a process where the potency of the creative self reveals itself in an ongoing, ahistorical 'present'. This subjectivism, built into colossal public works, marks a definitive break with the conventions of British nineteenth century public sculpture. 2. Short catalogue introduction to sculptural works 3. Five extended catalogue essays including significant new information on provenance, and authorship, identity and extent of reductions, variations and copies of key works.
Author(s): Brown S
Editor(s): Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: G.F. Watts, Victorian Visionary
Year: 2008
Pages: 58-75 & 285-295
Edition: first
Publisher: Yale University Press
Place Published: New Haven and London
Notes: One of a series of essays in a publication accompanying a major exhibition of Watts's works at the Guildhall Art Gallery, and St Paul's Cathedral, London (11 November 2008-26 April 2009).
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780300142570
