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ISBN | 9781472146137 |
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Autor | Lytollis Roger |
Vydavatel | Constable & Robinson |
Jazyk | english |
Väzba | Pevná vazba |
Rok vydania | 2021 |
Počet strán | 304 |
This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them.
As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's Beatles statue convinced that Rod Stewart was in the Fab Four. In Edinburgh he walks into a row over Greyfriars Bobby's nose and in Glasgow learns why the Duke of Wellington wears a traffic cone on his head. London brings a controversial nude statue and some hard truths about racism. Elsewhere, Roger sees people dancing with Eric Morecambe, finds a statue being the backdrop to a marriage proposal and, everywhere he goes, pigeons. Always pigeons. On a Pedestal is the first book to examine public statues around the nation. It looks at their emergence onto the front line of our culture wars