Awards

• Joint winner of Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2002
• Short-listed for Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award 2002
• Shortlisted for Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award 2002.

Overview

"In this fifth volume of ""The Public Sculpture of Britain"" series, most of the great British and some continental sculptors are represented with important sculptures - John Flaxman, J.H. Foley, John Gibson, Francis Chantrey, Carlo Marochetti, Auguste-Nicolas Cain, Hamo Thornycroft, George Frampton and many others. Glasgow was never provincial but has largely resisted artistic centralization based on London as elsewhere public sculpture has largely represented provincial excursions by London sculptors. Edinburgh has had its own scuptors, some of whom lived in Glasgow, but it lacked the latters wealth and international links. Liverpool's sculptors lived mainly in Rome so only in Glasgow, and perhaps also in Edinburgh, were ther significant local workshops, often family-based, training dynasties of native sculptors. These workshops themselves depended on another great Glasgow specialism, architectural sculpture. Local architects naturally looked to local sculptors for the sculpture intended to enhance the beauty, proclaim the independance and explain the purpose of their buildings."

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... a richly textured, indispensable reference text. It will be invaluable not only as a resource and stimulus for research but also for those concerned with local planning and conservation. The Burlington Magazine Joint-winner of the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year

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Ray McKenzie was until his recent retirement a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Research Fellow at the School of Art in Glasgow, and is the author of several studies on the art of the city. These include Public Sculpture of Glasgow, which was joint winner of the Saltire Society / National Library of Scotland award for Research Book of the Year in 2002, and The Flower and the Green Leaf, an exploration of the educational culture of the School at the time of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. He is currently an Honorary Professor in the Department of Fine Art Critical Studies.

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