Bibliography: The Art of Sculpture in Victorian Britain

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[see also bibliographies included with materials about individual sculptors]

Avery, Charkles, and Madeleine March. "The Bronze Statuettes of the Art Union of London: The Rise and Decline of Victorian Taste in Sculpture." Apollo 121 (May 1985): 328-57.

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Metamporphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture. Ed. Jeanne L. Wasserman. Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Press, 1975.

Although this volume discusses only French and American sculpture -- it appeared before the revival of interest in Victorian sculpture -- its discussions of technical matters, conceptions of originality, and other issues involved with creating art in multiple copies illuminate British work as well.

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Skipwith, Peyton. Peter Pan and Eros: Public and Private Sculpture in Britain, 1880-1940. London: Fine Art Society, 2002.

Virtue and Vision: Sculpture in Scotland, 1540-1900. Ed. Fiona Pearson. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. 1991.

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