In the context of Statue of Clement Attlee, analyze the Reception of the History.
The critic Charles Saumarez Smith considers the statue a "convincing example of modern figurative sculpture". Bridget Cherry and Charles O'Brien, in the 2005 revised version London 5: East of the Pevsner Buildings of England series, describe it as "touchingly prosaic". In his detailed study, London’s Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues, John Blackwood devotes an entire chapter to the commissioning, construction and placement of the Attlee statue, describing it as “finished to perfection, [.] the leader in middle life, human, modest and determined”.
Bridget Cherry England figurative Charles Saumarez Smith leader London sculpture Pevsner Buildings of England