Kineton Parkes

William Kineton Parkes (1865–1938) was an English novelist, art historian and librarian, best known for his writing on sculpture and his 1914 modernist novel Hardware: A Novel in Four Books.[1]

Mason Science College, now the University of Birmingham

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 forerunner of the University of Birmingham.[3] From 1891 to 1911 he was principal of the Nicholson Institute, Leek.[4][5][6]

In 1922, he published his two volume survey Sculpture of Today. The papers for this work and an unpublished third volume are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum.[7] A second two volume work The Art of Carved Sculpture was published in 1931.[8] He was a regular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

  1. ↑ Kemp, Sandra; Mitchell, Charlotte; Trotter, David (2002), "Parkes, W. Kineton", The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 308, ISBN 019860534X
  2. ↑ Jones, Phil, Three Serbian Songs, University of Wolverhampton, retrieved 2012-09-29
  3. ↑ British library year book: a record of library progress and work, Scott, Greenwood & Co., 1900, p. 153, retrieved 2012-09-29
  4. ↑ "Parkes, Kineton". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1358.
  5. ↑ Parkes, Kineton (1865–1938), Artists' Papers Register: Authority Record
  6. ↑ Photographs of the Nicholson Institute, Leek
  7. ↑ Sculpture in the Archive of Art & Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, retrieved 2012-09-09
  8. 1 2 Medhurst, Phillip (2009), Walter Gilbert, p. 2, retrieved 2012-09-29


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