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Informationen zum Autor Professor Fran Lloyd is Professor of Art History & Associate Dean Research & Enterprise, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University. Helen Potkin is Principal Lecturer in Art History at Kingston University, London. Davina Thackara is a writer, researcher and editor specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a particular interest in sculpture. art and architecture and art and science. She was for many years Lecturer in Art Histotry at Kingston University, London. From the northernmost borough of Hillingdon to the southern boroughs of Kingston, Merton, and Croydon, this volume focuses on public sculpture in the eight boroughs of outer south and west London. Of the three hundred monuments detailed, most were commissioned by aristocratic patrons to adorn private residences, among them Lord Burlington's Chiswick House and Hampton Court Palace--famous for architectural and garden sculptures by John Van Nost, Caius Gabriel Cibber, and Edward Pierce. The nineteenth century saw private patronage replaced by public support, as ambitious programs of sculpture were launched to emphasize civic virtues. With more than two hundred illustrations, this book locates public sculpture in the context of the metropolis and offers insight into the shifting identities of the outer boroughs. Focuses on the public sculpture and monuments in the eight boroughs of outer south and west London that stretch in a curve from the northernmost borough of Hillingdon, which borders the boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow, to Richmond that straddles the Thames, to the southern boroughs Kingston, Merton, Sutton, and Croydon.
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Professor Fran Lloyd, Professor of Art History & Associate Dean Research & Enterprise, Faculty of art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University.
She is a representative of visual culture on the Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council Religion and Society Panel and is a Fellow of the Society of Arts.
Director of the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre at Kingston University, Professor Lloyd has recently published widely on contemporary visual culture and feminist art practice. Publications include Consuming Bodies: Sex and Consumerism in Contemporary Japanese Art (Reaktion, 2003), and the co-edited catalogue of Sex and Consumerism, Contemporary Art in Japan (University of Brighton, 2001) which accompanied the major touring exhibition that focused on the resurgence of the imaging of sex and consumerism through the work of eight contemporary artists in Japan. Other publications arising from exhibition projects include Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present (Women's Art Library and I. B. Tauris, 1999), Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora (Saffron, 2000), and From the Interior: Female Perspectives on Figuration (1999). She has also contributed to the Journal of Visual Culture in Britain (2001), the Journal of Algerian Studies (2001), and Feminist Visual Culture: An Introduction, edited by Carson and Pajaczkowska (2000). Most recently she has contributed to the first monographic study of Dora Gordine (Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer, Philip Wilson, 2007).
Helen Potkin is Principal Lecturer in Art History at Kingston University & Course Director for three undergraduate courses in the School of Art & Design History
Davina Thackara is a writer, researcher and editor specialising in modern and contemporary art with a particular interest in sculpture and interdisciplinary fields such as art and architecture and art and science. She also worked for many years as a lecturer in art history in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University, London.
