William Kineton Parkes (1865–1938) was an English novelist, art historian and librarian, known best for his publication concerning sculpture and his 1914 modernist novel Hardware: A Novel in Four Books.[1]
Parkes was born in Aston, Birmingham, one of six children of William Parkes, who worked in Birmingham's jewellery trade.[2] He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School in Aston and at Mason Science College, a predecessor of the University of Birmingham.[3] From 1891 to 1911 he was principal of the Nicholson Institute, Leek.[4][5][6]
During 1922 he published his two volume survey Sculpture of Today. The papers for this work and an unpublished third volume are possessed by the Victoria & Albert Museum.[7] A second two volume work The Art of Carved Sculpture was published in 1931.[8] He was a regular contributor to magazines such as Architectural Review, Apollo and The Studio.[8]
References edit
- ^ Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (2002), "Parkes, W. Kineton", The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 308, ISBN 019860534X
- ^ Jones, Phil, Three Serbian Songs, University of Wolverhampton, archived from the original on 15 October 2012, retrieved 29 September 2012
- ^ British library year book: a record of library progress and work, Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1900, p. 153, retrieved 29 September 2012
- ^ "Parkes, Kineton". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1358.
- ^ Parkes, Kineton (1865–1938), Artists' Papers Register: Authority Record
- ^ Photographs of the Nicholson Institute, Leek
- ^ Sculpture in the Archive of Art & Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, retrieved 9 September 2012
- ^ a b Medhurst, Phillip (2009), Walter Gilbert, p. 2, retrieved 29 September 2012
External links edit
- "The Forgotten Kineton Parkes Questionnaires", by Cathy Corbett, 3rd Dimension, 28 April 2016
- "William Kineton Parkes and sculptors of the twenties"
- "Considering national art from a distance: Kineton Parkes and his reflections on contemporary sculpture made in Spain", by Cristina Rodríguez-Samaniego, Sculpture Journal, vol.25, issue1, 2016
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