Sculpture and the Garden

Patrick Eyres is editor of the New Arcadian Journal, UK. Fiona Russell is a freelance writer and editor.

Contents: Preface, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; Part 1 The Georgian landscape garden and Victorian urban park: Introduction, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; 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, 1714-1760, 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; Part 2 Modernism, postmodernism, landscape and regeneration: Introduction, Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell; 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; Bibliography; Index.