Public Statues Across Time and Cultures

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Public Statues Across Time and Cultures is written by Christopher P. Dickenson and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000368262 (ISBN 10) and 9781000368260 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context and of written discourses having to do with how they were experienced. Bringing together experts working on statues in different cultures, the book sheds light on similarities and differences in the role that public statues had in different times and places throughout history. The book will also provide insight into the diverse methods and approaches that scholars working on these different periods use to investigate statues. The book will appeal to historians, art historians and archaeologists of all periods who have an interest in the display of sculpture, the reception of public art or the significance of public monuments.