Public art: the pages of history. British sculpture parks of the second half of the 20th century

Abstract

The article continues a series of publications related to the problems of the modern and contemporary public art. For the British art of this time more successful solution to the problem of synthesis were the synthesis of sculpture and natural space rather than attempts to include works of art in the urban environment. The most significant examples here — British sculpture gardens and sculpture parks, as well as regular exhibitions of sculpture in a natural space. The landscape placement is the most relevant to focus of British sculpture of the period. This is due to the desire of many British sculptors to stem from adequate universal expression of the landscape as the ideal spatial context. Social function is less identified in the British sculpture. Placed in the public environment, these works are only temporary attributes of it. Masters of British sculpture is peculiar to appeal to the individual, not the social context, even in the case of a large-scale monumental works.

Keywords:

public art, public sculpture, modern sculpture, British sculpture, sculpture gardens, sculpture parks, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Jacob Epstein