PMSA publications

The National Recording Project Series - Public Sculpture of Britain

Editorial Board Chair: Edward Morris

The NRP series Public Sculpture of Britain, published by Liverpool University Press, aims to provide a full survey of public sculpture nationwide. These fully illustrated volumes deal comprehensively with works occupying public space. They constitute an essential resource for all those involved.

Liverpool University Press books are available from good bookstores. Alternatively you can purchase direct from their website where prices and further details can be found.

Special Offer from Liverpool University Press on the Public Sculpture of Britain series

Special discounts are now available for PMSA members and Sculpture Journal subscribers on the Public Sculpture of Britain series. As well as an excellent price for individual volumes, Liverpool University Press have made available an exclusive offer for the complete set for only £100 plus £3.50 postage. For further details of this offer, download an order form by clicking here.

Forthcoming volumes in this series

July 2010 - Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse

September 2010 - Public Sculpture of Bristol

Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster (1) the External Commemorative and Free-Standing Sculpture and (2) The Architectural Sculpture Westminster by Philip Ward-Jackson.

Public Sculpture of South-West London by Fran Lloyd and Davina Thackara.

Public Sculpture of Sussex

Published volumes

Public Sculpture of Liverpool
by Terry Cavanagh

The first volume in the PMSA's survey of the entire corpus of public sculpture and memorials in Great Britain. It is an in-depth catalogue of every sculptural piece in the city, described in exhaustive detail, with good quality photographs.

The work on which the book is based was undertaken by the author with the support of the University of Leicester and the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.

The book is a fully illustrated survey of Liverpool's wealth of sculpture, with introduction, glossary and comprehensive index. It is presented in a large format, opening to double A4 size.

Published in September 1997. 394 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853237013 (hb), 9780853237112 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Birmingham
by George T. Noszlopy, edited by Jeremy Beach

The book covers almost all sculptural works in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield, including many contemporary works, and a large section on lost works. The introduction draws attention to previously unacclaimed artists working in the city.

The work on which the book is based was developed as part of the University of Central England's Public Sculpture Project, updated and digitised for the PMSA National Recording Project. Full acknowledgement of funding sources and the many researchers who assisted the author and editor are contained in the volume.

Birmingham's rich heritage of sculptural workshops and one-off commissions is fully illustrated in the volume, which includes glossary and index.

Published in March 1998. 256 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853236825 (hb), 9780853236924 (pb)

Public Sculpture of North-East England
by Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris

Extending northward from the counties of Cleveland and Durham to the Scottish / Northumbrian border, the North East of England includes one of the greatest concentrations of recent public sculpture in Britain together with an extraordinary variety of public monuments and sculpture of all ages. The book documents over 450 of these works for the first time, providing full details of their materials, physical condition, ownership and commissioning. Particular attention is devoted to the historical use and interpretation of the monuments. From this emerges a fascinating picture of the development of public sculpture in the region and of its contribution to the creation of local identities.

Published in May 2000. 368 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853236252 (hb), 9780853236351 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland
by Terry Cavanagh, introduction by Alison Yarrington

The book presents a comprehensive survey of the surprisingly rich heritage of publicly-accessible monuments and sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland.

Sculpture of Leicestershire is represented by a variety of pieces ranging from the enigmatic 15th- and 16th-century sculptures of Stapleford Park to the elegant bronze nudes on Leicester's South African War Memorial. Also documented is the rich collection of works by 20th-century artists that were erected in schools and colleges as part of a specific local authority educational sculpture programme. The many sculptors who contributed include Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Philip King, Bryan Kneale, Peter Peri and William Pye.

Rutland has works of high quality and singular interest, including Alexander's 30-foot high Great Tower at Rutland Water, 'the largest bronze sculpture of modern times', unveiled in 1980.

Published in September 2000. 448 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853236450 (hb), 9780853236559 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Glasgow
by Ray McKenzie (Glasgow School of Art)

Glasgow is notable as being one of the few British cities to have resisted artistic centralization based in London. Only in Glasgow were there significant local workshops, often family-based, training dynasties of native sculptors. The book includes work by some of the most influential British and continental sculptors during the last 200 years including John Flaxman, John Gibson, J.H. Foley and Carlo Marochetti. Ray McKenzie has in this volume for the first time demonstrated the importance of Glasgow's architectural sculpture and explained its function with a wealth superbly arranged and carefully marshalled detail. Joint-winner of the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year

Published in March 2002. 562 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853239277 (hb), 9780853239376 (pb)

Public Sculpture of the City of London
by Philip Ward-Jackson

By the end of the seventeenth century, the City of London was already by far the most important centre of trade and finance in the world. This financial and commercial supremacy was reflected in some of the most impressive architecture and public sculpture of the last 300 years. With over 420 photographs the book is a unique survey of one of the most architecturally exciting and diverse cities in the world.

Published in January 2003. 680 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853239673 (hb), 9780853239772 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
by George T. Noszlopy

Public sculpture reflects the history of a county and few other areas have Warwickshire's variety and vitality. Coventry was one of the five largest and finest cities of medieval England and the celebrated exploit of Lady Godiva, one of the principal founders, has always been irresistible to artists. Coventry's devastation in the Second World War encouraged much public sculpture related to regeneration. Nearly all the sculpture in Stratford-upon-Avon commemorates William Shakespeare with Ronald Gower's masterpiece displaying French panache in its mixture of portraiture and allegory.

Published in March 2003. 332 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853238379 (hb), 9780853238478 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester
by Terry Wyke (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Covering the area formerly administered by the Greater Manchester Metropolitan Council, the book focuses on the communities at the heart of the industrial revolution in Britain (Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan), exploring both the connections and the differences among them. Although Manchester's first free-standing public statue – Francis Chantrey's portrait of the scientist John Dalton – dates from 1838, it was the wave of public commemoration following the death of Sir Robert Peel in 1850 that proved the decisive event for public statuary in the region, with statues being raised to Peel in Manchester, Salford and Bury. Salford's Peel Park, opened in 1846, displayed one of the first groups of public statues in Britain. Politics were never far away, with the placing of statues of three living Liberals – Gladstone, Bright and Villiers – in Manchester town hall (also famous for Ford Madox Brown's murals) marking the strong association of the area with free trade policies. Harry Bates's Socrates Teaching the People in the Agora , at Manchester University, is one of the most significant examples of the ‘New Sculpture'; notable twentieth-century works include Eric Gill's relief St Mary, St Denys, St George and the Christ Child for Manchester Cathedral and Barbara Hepworth's Two Forms (Divided Circle) in Bolton. The 30-mile Irwell Sculpture Trail, following the River Irwell from Salford Quays through Bury to the Pennines, is one of the most ambitious contemporary public art programmes in Britain and has commissioned sculpture from regional, national and international artists. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature 2004.

Published in March 2003. 332 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853238379 (hb), 9780853238478 (pb)

Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country
by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse (University of Central England).

This ninth volume of Public Sculpture of Britain includes all of Staffordshire together with the Black Country (including Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Smethwick and West Bromwich), an area immensely rich in public sculpture. There are over 450 entries describing many sculptures and groups of sculptures, with illustrations of all the major works. These include statues by F. W. Pomeroy, Charles Birch, Albert Toft, William Theed and Thomas Brock, and notable architectural sculpture by Charles Rossi and H. C. Fehr. Among the twentieth-century sculptors represented are W. J. Bloye, Walter Ritchie and Barbara Hepworth, and there is also work commissioned by local regeneration projects. Significant ecclesiastical works are featured, among them Francis Chantrey's famous sculptures in Lichfield Cathedral. The book has biographies, a glossary of special terms and a comprehensive index.

Published in September 2005. 360 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9780853239895 (hb), 9780853239994 (pb)

Public Sculpture of South London
by Terry Cavanagh

In this volume, the tenth in the Public Sculpture of Britain series, the immensely varied and very important public sculpture of the Boroughs of Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham are illustrated and catalogued in great detail. At Guy's hospital John Bacon the elder's Monument to Thomas Guy of 1779, certainly his masterpiece, reflects the new philanthropy of the period. Scarcely less notable are the statues of Thomas Guy and of Edward VI by Peter Scheemakers at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. George Tinworth's Doulton Memorial and his Doulton Artists on Doulton's former premises commemorate both the great South London patron and the sculptor. Eric Kennington's Memorial to the 24th Division is one of the most memorable war memorials in London. Henry Moore's Three Standing Figures in Battersea Park was the first significant public sculpture to be erected in London after the Second World War. Its stormy reception is closely described in this volume. Barbara Hepworth's Single Form (Memorial) is also in Battersea Park. Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 in the Brandon Estate was one of the first examples of public sculpture used by a local authority for social regeneration. The Hayward Gallery Neon Tower of 1969–72 by Philip Vaughan and Roger Dainton was one of the first public demonstrations of these new materials and techniques. Michael Sandle's International Memorial to Seafarers of 2000–2001 is perhaps the most recent example of notable public sculpture in the area.

Published in December 2007. 336 pp., 220 x 250mm.
ISBN: 9781846310638 (hb), 9781846310751 (pb)

Birmingham Sculpture Trails
by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse

This book is the first in a series of pocket guides to regional sculpture, building on the highly successful Public Sculpture of Britain series. This richly illustrated volume includes more than one hundred colour photographs and showcases the rich array of monuments and sculptures in the city of Birmingham. Birmingham not only attracted major sculptors from London, but as a great manufacturing city it possessed busy workshops of local sculptors, often closely associated with its progressive and important art school. This stunning volume will be required reading for anyone interested in public sculpture and will also be welcomed by a regional readership determined to find out more about the cultural heritage of Britain's second city.

George T. Noszlopy is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central England. Fiona Waterhouse is a researcher at the University of Central England.

Published in December 2007. 224 pp., 200 x 125mm.
ISBN: 9781846311345 (pb)

Liverpool Sculpture Trails
by Andrew Jackson

This book is the second in a series of pocket guides to regional sculpture, building on the highly successful public Sculpture of Britain series. The richly illustrated volume includes more than one hundred colour photographs and showcases the extraordinarily rich array of monuments andsculptures in the city of Liverpool. The city has a greater heritage of public sculpture than any English city outside London, including iconic contemporary works, and this stunning volume is an essential companion to Liverpool.

To be published in 2009. 224 pp., 200 x 125mm.
ISBN: 9781846311673 (pb)

The National Recording Project Series - Public Sculpture of Britain
				Editorial Board Chair: Edward Morris The NRP series Public Sculpture of Britain, published by Liverpool University Press, aims to provide a full survey of public sculpture nationwide. These fully illustrated volumes deal comprehensively with works occupying public space. They constitute an essential resource for all those involved. Liverpool University Press books are available from good bookstores. Alternatively you can purchase direct from their website where prices and further details can be found. Special Offer from Liverpool University Press on the Public Sculpture of Britain series Special discounts are now available for PMSA members and Sculpture Journal subscribers on the Public Sculpture of Britain series. As well as an excellent price for individual volumes, Liverpool University Press have made available an exclusive offer for the complete set for only £100 plus £3.50 postage. For further details of this offer, download an order form by clicking here. Forthcoming volumes in this series July 2010 - Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse September 2010 - Public Sculpture of Bristol Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster (1) the External Commemorative and Free-Standing Sculpture and (2) The Architectural Sculpture Westminster by Philip Ward-Jackson. Public Sculpture of South-West London by Fran Lloyd and Davina Thackara. Public Sculpture of Sussex
				Published volumes Public Sculpture of Liverpool by Terry Cavanagh The first volume in the PMSA's survey of the entire corpus of public sculpture and memorials in Great Britain. It is an in-depth catalogue of every sculptural piece in the city, described in exhaustive detail, with good quality photographs. The work on which the book is based was undertaken by the author with the support of the University of Leicester and the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. The book is a fully illustrated survey of Liverpool's wealth of sculpture, with introduction, glossary and comprehensive index. It is presented in a large format, opening to double A4 size. Published in September 1997. 394 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853237013 (hb), 9780853237112 (pb)
				Public Sculpture of Birmingham by George T. Noszlopy, edited by Jeremy Beach The book covers almost all sculptural works in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield, including many contemporary works, and a large section on lost works. The introduction draws attention to previously unacclaimed artists working in the city. The work on which the book is based was developed as part of the University of Central England's Public Sculpture Project, updated and digitised for the PMSA National Recording Project. Full acknowledgement of funding sources and the many researchers who assisted the author and editor are contained in the volume. Birmingham's rich heritage of sculptural workshops and one-off commissions is fully illustrated in the volume, which includes glossary and index. Published in March 1998. 256 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853236825 (hb), 9780853236924 (pb)
				Public Sculpture of North-East England by Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris Extending northward from the counties of Cleveland and Durham to the Scottish / Northumbrian border, the North East of England includes one of the greatest concentrations of recent public sculpture in Britain together with an extraordinary variety of public monuments and sculpture of all ages. The book documents over 450 of these works for the first time, providing full details of their materials, physical condition, ownership and commissioning. Particular attention is devoted to the historical use and interpretation of the monuments. From this emerges a fascinating picture of the development of public sculpture in the region and of its contribution to the creation of local identities. Published in May 2000. 368 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853236252 (hb), 9780853236351 (pb)
				Public Sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland by Terry Cavanagh, introduction by Alison Yarrington The book presents a comprehensive survey of the surprisingly rich heritage of publicly-accessible monuments and sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland. Sculpture of Leicestershire is represented by a variety of pieces ranging from the enigmatic 15th- and 16th-century sculptures of Stapleford Park to the elegant bronze nudes on Leicester's South African War Memorial. Also documented is the rich collection of works by 20th-century artists that were erected in schools and colleges as part of a specific local authority educational sculpture programme. The many sculptors who contributed include Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Philip King, Bryan Kneale, Peter Peri and William Pye. Rutland has works of high quality and singular interest, including Alexander's 30-foot high Great Tower at Rutland Water, 'the largest bronze sculpture of modern times', unveiled in 1980. Published in September 2000. 448 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853236450 (hb), 9780853236559 (pb) Public Sculpture of Glasgow by Ray McKenzie (Glasgow School of Art) Glasgow is notable as being one of the few British cities to have resisted artistic centralization based in London. Only in Glasgow were there significant local workshops, often family-based, training dynasties of native sculptors. The book includes work by some of the most influential British and continental sculptors during the last 200 years including John Flaxman, John Gibson, J.H. Foley and Carlo Marochetti. Ray McKenzie has in this volume for the first time demonstrated the importance of Glasgow's architectural sculpture and explained its function with a wealth superbly arranged and carefully marshalled detail. Joint-winner of the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year Published in March 2002. 562 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853239277 (hb), 9780853239376 (pb) Public Sculpture of the City of London by Philip Ward-Jackson By the end of the seventeenth century, the City of London was already by far the most important centre of trade and finance in the world. This financial and commercial supremacy was reflected in some of the most impressive architecture and public sculpture of the last 300 years. With over 420 photographs the book is a unique survey of one of the most architecturally exciting and diverse cities in the world. Published in January 2003. 680 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853239673 (hb), 9780853239772 (pb) Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull by George T. Noszlopy Public sculpture reflects the history of a county and few other areas have Warwickshire's variety and vitality. Coventry was one of the five largest and finest cities of medieval England and the celebrated exploit of Lady Godiva, one of the principal founders, has always been irresistible to artists. Coventry's devastation in the Second World War encouraged much public sculpture related to regeneration. Nearly all the sculpture in Stratford-upon-Avon commemorates William Shakespeare with Ronald Gower's masterpiece displaying French panache in its mixture of portraiture and allegory. Published in March 2003. 332 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853238379 (hb), 9780853238478 (pb) Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester by Terry Wyke (Manchester Metropolitan University) Covering the area formerly administered by the Greater Manchester Metropolitan Council, the book focuses on the communities at the heart of the industrial revolution in Britain (Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan), exploring both the connections and the differences among them. Although Manchester's first free-standing public statue – Francis Chantrey's portrait of the scientist John Dalton – dates from 1838, it was the wave of public commemoration following the death of Sir Robert Peel in 1850 that proved the decisive event for public statuary in the region, with statues being raised to Peel in Manchester, Salford and Bury. Salford's Peel Park, opened in 1846, displayed one of the first groups of public statues in Britain. Politics were never far away, with the placing of statues of three living Liberals – Gladstone, Bright and Villiers – in Manchester town hall (also famous for Ford Madox Brown's murals) marking the strong association of the area with free trade policies. Harry Bates's Socrates Teaching the People in the Agora , at Manchester University, is one of the most significant examples of the ‘New Sculpture'; notable twentieth-century works include Eric Gill's relief St Mary, St Denys, St George and the Christ Child for Manchester Cathedral and Barbara Hepworth's Two Forms (Divided Circle) in Bolton. The 30-mile Irwell Sculpture Trail, following the River Irwell from Salford Quays through Bury to the Pennines, is one of the most ambitious contemporary public art programmes in Britain and has commissioned sculpture from regional, national and international artists. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature 2004. Published in March 2003. 332 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853238379 (hb), 9780853238478 (pb) Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse (University of Central England). This ninth volume of Public Sculpture of Britain includes all of Staffordshire together with the Black Country (including Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Smethwick and West Bromwich), an area immensely rich in public sculpture. There are over 450 entries describing many sculptures and groups of sculptures, with illustrations of all the major works. These include statues by F. W. Pomeroy, Charles Birch, Albert Toft, William Theed and Thomas Brock, and notable architectural sculpture by Charles Rossi and H. C. Fehr. Among the twentieth-century sculptors represented are W. J. Bloye, Walter Ritchie and Barbara Hepworth, and there is also work commissioned by local regeneration projects. Significant ecclesiastical works are featured, among them Francis Chantrey's famous sculptures in Lichfield Cathedral. The book has biographies, a glossary of special terms and a comprehensive index. Published in September 2005. 360 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9780853239895 (hb), 9780853239994 (pb)
				Public Sculpture of South London by Terry Cavanagh In this volume, the tenth in the Public Sculpture of Britain series, the immensely varied and very important public sculpture of the Boroughs of Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham are illustrated and catalogued in great detail. At Guy's hospital John Bacon the elder's Monument to Thomas Guy of 1779, certainly his masterpiece, reflects the new philanthropy of the period. Scarcely less notable are the statues of Thomas Guy and of Edward VI by Peter Scheemakers at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. George Tinworth's Doulton Memorial and his Doulton Artists on Doulton's former premises commemorate both the great South London patron and the sculptor. Eric Kennington's Memorial to the 24th Division is one of the most memorable war memorials in London. Henry Moore's Three Standing Figures in Battersea Park was the first significant public sculpture to be erected in London after the Second World War. Its stormy reception is closely described in this volume. Barbara Hepworth's Single Form (Memorial) is also in Battersea Park. Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 in the Brandon Estate was one of the first examples of public sculpture used by a local authority for social regeneration. The Hayward Gallery Neon Tower of 1969–72 by Philip Vaughan and Roger Dainton was one of the first public demonstrations of these new materials and techniques. Michael Sandle's International Memorial to Seafarers of 2000–2001 is perhaps the most recent example of notable public sculpture in the area. Published in December 2007. 336 pp., 220 x 250mm. ISBN: 9781846310638 (hb), 9781846310751 (pb)
				Birmingham Sculpture Trails by George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse This book is the first in a series of pocket guides to regional sculpture, building on the highly successful Public Sculpture of Britain series. This richly illustrated volume includes more than one hundred colour photographs and showcases the rich array of monuments and sculptures in the city of Birmingham. Birmingham not only attracted major sculptors from London, but as a great manufacturing city it possessed busy workshops of local sculptors, often closely associated with its progressive and important art school. This stunning volume will be required reading for anyone interested in public sculpture and will also be welcomed by a regional readership determined to find out more about the cultural heritage of Britain's second city. George T. Noszlopy is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central England. Fiona Waterhouse is a researcher at the University of Central England. Published in December 2007. 224 pp., 200 x 125mm. ISBN: 9781846311345 (pb) Liverpool Sculpture Trails by Andrew Jackson This book is the second in a series of pocket guides to regional sculpture, building on the highly successful public Sculpture of Britain series. The richly illustrated volume includes more than one hundred colour photographs and showcases the extraordinarily rich array of monuments andsculptures in the city of Liverpool. The city has a greater heritage of public sculpture than any English city outside London, including iconic contemporary works, and this stunning volume is an essential companion to Liverpool. To be published in 2009. 224 pp., 200 x 125mm. ISBN: 9781846311673 (pb)