French Second Empire
William McNicol Whyte, a Scottish architect introduced ‘French Second Empire’ to Glasgow. In doing so he put two fingers up to ‘established taste’: [to play a short film about William … Continue reading French Second Empire
Tag: statue
a God, now lying at the base with dismembered limbs
Apollo’s Temple: Aware that the temple was on the ‘Buildings at Risk’ Register, it was only in finding it, that I realised how at risk it has become. A short … Continue reading a God, now lying at the base with dismembered limbs
Mercury in bronze
Sometime before 1885, when ploughing a field near Cowiehall in Stirlingshire, a Throsk farmer came across a statuette of Mercury in bronze. This statuette is now kept by the National … Continue reading Mercury in bronze
The soul and the operator
Image: Photograph from 1910 of a basement corridor in the Glasgow School of Art Words: John Berger [on Art]
A statue on the north bank of the Clyde
A statue on the north bank of the Clyde. To play this short film please click here or on the image below:
statues
“Meet you at the statue in an hour” is the closing line of the song ‘Piazza, New York Catcher’ by Belle and Sebastian. This line is repeated twice. … Continue reading statues
How did a statue of Beethoven end up at the back of Renfrew Street, Glasgow?
How did a statue of Beethoven end up at the back of Renfrew Street, Glasgow? What can this tell us about the relationship between science and art, objectivity and subjectivity? … Continue reading How did a statue of Beethoven end up at the back of Renfrew Street, Glasgow?