Mark Stocker - Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905, and: Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c. 1880-1930 (review) - Victorian Studies 47:2 Victorian Studies 47.2 (2005) 312-315 Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905, by David J. Getsy; pp. viii + 239. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, $65.00, £40.00. Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c. 1880–1930, edited by David J. Getsy, pp. xv + 331. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004, £55.00, $99.95. Twenty years ago, scholarship of the late-nineteenth-century New Sculpture belatedly came of age, with the publication of monographs by Benedict Read, Susan Beattie, and Richard Dorment. Yet the movement still has far to go in terms of its popular and even academic recognition. This is tellingly reflected in the continued need to apply quotation marks to the "New Sculpture" and to explain it to people who understand what is meant by Art Nouveau or Fauvism. In turn, London tourists remain overwhelmingly unaware that the world-famous Shaftesbury Memorial (Eros [1885–93]) was created by the leading New Sculptor, Alfred Gilbert. Art historians and curators themselves have not always helped matters; David Getsy bemoans their "conventional denigrations" of pre-modernist British art. In his introduction to Body Doubles, Getsy claims he was "faced with the reality that many readers would be unsympathetic" to the sculptures analysed...