Sculpture and the garden / edited by Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. - 196 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index

Pt. 1. The Georgian landscape garden and Victorian urban park. Studley Royal: landscape as sculpture / Glynis Ridley -- The king in the garden: royal statues and the naturalization of the Hanoverian Dynasty in early Georgian Britain. 1714-60 / Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau -- Sex, gender, politics: the Venus de Medici in the eighteenth-century landscape garden / Wendy Frith -- Marginal figures? Public statues and public parks in the Manchester region, 1840-1914 / Terry Wyke -- The meaning and re-meaning of sculpture in Victorian public parks / David Lambert. Pt. 2. Modernism, postmodernism, landscape and regeneration. Henry Moore's Recumbent figure, 1938, at Bentley Wood / Alan Powers -- Modern sculpture in the public park: a socialist experiment in open-air 'cultured leisure' / Robert Burstow -- Modernism out of doors: Barbara Hepworth's garden / Chris Stephens -- 1977. A walk across the park, into the forest, and back to the garden: the sculpture park in Britain / Joy Sleeman -- Naturalizing neoclassicism: little Sparta and the public gardens of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Patrick Eyres.

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