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Book SynopsisHighlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world.
Trade Review‘Three cheers for the Yale Center for British Art and Tate Britain for collaborating on the exhibition “Sculpture Victorious” at Tate Britain… The show, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue of the same title, will also explains the evolution of the new technologies, styles, materials and ideas of the late British Empire.’—D. I ,
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“As sumptuous as its subject . . . illustrated by magnificent photography . . . essays by a distinguished group of scholars address every aspect of this fascinating art form . . . this book encompasses the subject in all its majesty.”—Barrymore Laurence Scherer,
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