Physical energy: G.F. Watts and transformations in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century sculpture

最近的研究证实了瓦茨对维多利亚时期绘画的重要性。他的次要雕塑作品仍然被边缘化。我的项目将考察这座雕塑在英国艺术中的独特但被低估的地位。瓦茨的雕塑发展了独立构思的公共纪念碑和非自然主义的形式/表面，拒绝了当代的规范。我提出了新的证据和论点来解释他的非传统方法，物理能量是一个巨大的未经授权的纪念碑，有争议的意识形态和审美实体，位于三个地点-包括肯辛顿花园(1907)。一本单著书、展览和其他计划输出将详细研究这项工作，将它与公共雕塑中的当前问题和多元文化背景下纪念碑的问题地位联系起来。

Recent research confirms Watts's importance to Victorian painting. His lesser sculptural production remains marginalised. My project will examine the sculpture's unique but undervalued position in British art. Developing independently-conceived public monuments and non-naturalistic form/ surface, Watts's sculpture rejected contemporary norms. I advance new evidence and arguments explaining his unconventional approach, epitomised by Physical Energy- a colossal un-commissioned monument of contested ideological and aestheticidentity, sited in three locations- including Kensington Gardens.(1907).A single-authored book, exhibition and other projected outputs will examine this work in detail, relating it to current issues in public sculpture and the problematic status of monuments in a multi-cultural context.