Roubiliac and the eighteenth-century monument : sculpture as theatre / David Bindman and Malcolm Baker.

Main entry:

Bindman, David, 1940-

Title & Author:

Roubiliac and the eighteenth-century monument : sculpture as theatre / David Bindman and Malcolm Baker.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1995.

Description:

x, 409 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-393) and index.
pt. 1. Roubiliac and the Monument in a Changing Society / David Bindman -- pt. 2. Making the Monuments / Malcolm Baker -- pt. 3. Catalogue of Roubiliac's Funerary Monuments / Malcolm Baker, Tessa Murdoch and David Bindman.

Summary:

Louis Francois Roubiliac was one of the most compelling sculptors to work in Britain in the eighteenth century, and has long been considered one of the most important. Many of his greatest commissions were monuments, located in Westminster Abbey and in churches throughout the country.
The first comprehensive study of Roubiliac since 1928, this innovative book looks at his work within a broad cultural framework and explores tomb sculpture in the context of the period. David Bindman begins the volume with a discussion of the reasons for, as well as the expectations associated with, the commissioning of funereal sculpture. Discussing ideas of death and the afterlife, the setting of the tomb, and the fictions governing its imagery, he then considers Roubiliac's monuments with particular reference to the negotiations with patrons which contributed to their final form. In the second part of the book, Malcolm Baker examines the design and making of the monuments, analysing documentary evidence, surviving models and the construction of the monuments themselves, and relates Roubiliac's procedures to contemporary sculptural practice.
Concluding with a complete catalogue of all Roubiliac's known monuments (written by Malcolm Baker with additional research by Tesssa Mordoch and David Bindman) and wonderfully enhanced by the inclusion of many specially commissioned photographs, this is a scholarly and fascinating portrait of Roubiliac's achievements and history.

ISBN:

0300063334
9780300063332

Subject:

Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762 Criticism and interpretation.
Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762 Catalogs.
Roubiliac, Louis François.
Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762
Sepulchral monuments England.
Sculpture, Modern 18th century.
Sculpture, Modern.
Sculpture 18e siècle.
Sepulchral monuments.
Grafplastieken.
England.
Stone sculptures

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
catalogues raisonnés.
Catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Baker, Malcolm, 1945-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189773
Call No.: ID PLS NB1116.R853 B5; ID:95-B3840
Status: Available

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