Fourth Plinth: How London Created the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World

by Isabel de Vasconcellos

The vacant plinth in the north-west corner of London's Trafalgar Square has provoked controversy for generations. Originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, it remained empty because of a lack of funds. For a century and half, debate over the plinth's fate raged until 1998, when it was decided to use the spot as a site of temporary commissions of contemporary art by leading artists.

A marble statue of a heavily pregnant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908970286
• ISBN13: 9781908970282
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Art / Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.3"