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Sculpture by the Yard

By: Douglas Murphy

The Manchester-based American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe’s work epitomised a disappeared and increasingly alien world of public provision.

'Root Bodied Forth', sculpture by Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe, Festival of Britain site, South Bank, Lambeth, London, 1951. (English Heritage / Heritage Images / Getty Images)

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Having grown up in Glasgow in the 1980s, I can remember trips to the Clydebank Shopping Centre, which was still more or less unchanged from when it was built in the 1960s. My lingering memory is of a cluster of abstract steel sculptures in a courtyard (in the style, I would now recognise, of Anthony […]

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Having grown up in Glasgow in the 1980s, I can remember trips to the Clydebank Shopping Centre, which was still more or less unchanged from when it was built in the 1960s. My lingering memory is of a cluster of abstract steel sculptures in a courtyard (in the style, I would now recognise, of Anthony […]

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Having grown up in Glasgow in the 1980s, I can remember trips to the Clydebank Shopping Centre, which was still more or less unchanged from when it was built in the 1960s. My lingering memory is of a cluster of abstract steel sculptures in a courtyard (in the style, I would now recognise, of Anthony […]

Having grown up in Glasgow in the 1980s, I can remember trips to the Clydebank Shopping Centre, which was still more or less unchanged from when it was built in the 1960s. My lingering memory is of a cluster of abstract steel sculptures in a courtyard (in the style, I would now recognise, of Anthony […]

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