Sculpture and the pursuit of a modern ideal in Britain, c. 1880-1930

Introduction, David J. Getsy; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Aesthete: Alfred Gilbert's Perseus Arming (1882) and the question of 'Aesthetic' sculpture in late-Victorian Britain, Jason Edwards; Fractured figures: the sculptural logic of Burne-Jones's stained glass, Caroline Arscott; Lord Ronald Gower and 'the offending Adam', Whitney Davis; Eros in Piccadilly Circus: monument and anti-monument, Alex Potts; Small sculpture c. 1900: the 'New Statuette' in English sculptural aesthetics, Martina Droth; The Lycidas 'scandal' of 1905: James Havard Thomas at the crux of modern sculpture in Britain, David J. Getsy; Heads and tales: Gaudier-Brzeska's Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound and the making of an avant-garde homage, Jon Wood; 'For King and Country': Frampton's Edith Cavell (1915-20) and the writing of gender in memorials to the Great War, Sue Malvern; Sculpture with a Scots Brogue: John Duncan Fergusson, c. 1916-24, Jonathan Blackwood; R. H. Wilenski and the Meaning of Modern Sculpture, Andrew Causey; How direct carving stole the idea of Modern British sculpture, Penelope Curtis; Select bibliography; Index.