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A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:03 pm
The sculpture by Maggi Hambling has attracted some controversy. www.standard.co.uk
Photo credit - Mike Harris
What do you think?
Photo credit - Mike Harris
What do you think?
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:18 pm
Yes, the naked woman at the top is the right way up at least. 
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:21 pm
There’s a fascinating BBC documentary about the artist.
Maggi Hambling: Making Love with the Paint - iPlayer (13 days left)
Maggi Hambling: Making Love with the Paint - iPlayer (13 days left)
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lolly Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:26 pm
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:28 pm
Artist Maggi Hambling has said critics of her naked sculpture commemorating writer and feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft have missed the point.
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft, unveiled today in north London, shows a nude figure emerging from a mixture of female forms.
But Hambling laughed off the criticism, telling the Standard: “You can’t be naked enough can you?
“The point is that she has to be naked because clothes define people. We all know that clothes are limiting and she is everywoman.”
The work was unveiled after a decade of fund-raising for a monument to the woman who is regarded as one of the earliest feminist pioneers. www.standard.co.uk
Mary Wollstonecraft - Wikipedia
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:33 pm
Lolly wrote:£143.000
Wigan’s mining sculpture installed this March cost slightly more than that, Lolly.
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lolly Tue 10 Nov 2020, 6:39 pm
I prefer the mining sculpture jo anne. The only thing I can make out is the naked figure. Sorry, I can only liken it to
a fairy on top of a Christmas tree.
a fairy on top of a Christmas tree.
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 10 Nov 2020, 7:10 pm
Lolly wrote:I prefer the mining sculpture … Sorry, I can only liken it to a fairy on top of a Christmas tree
I hadn’t thought of that but now you mention it, Lolly …
This was the other sculpture that was a contender:
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lolly Wed 11 Nov 2020, 11:45 am
I like that jo anne.
Mary has been covered up
Mary has been covered up
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Wed 11 Nov 2020, 11:53 am
At least Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is a talking point, Lolly. Had the other ‘nice’ sculpture been chosen we might not even have heard of it.
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Naughty Mitten Wed 11 Nov 2020, 12:57 pm
An off the shoulder number
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Naughty Mitten Wed 11 Nov 2020, 1:53 pm
An advert for Scottish Widows maybe?
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lolly Tue 29 Dec 2020, 6:32 pm
She must be cowd.
Christmas reveller uses festive red cape to cover up controversial naked sculpture celebrating 'mother of feminism' Mary Wollstonecraft
Christmas reveller uses festive red cape to cover up controversial naked sculpture celebrating 'mother of feminism' Mary Wollstonecraft
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Re: A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft
by jo anne Tue 29 Dec 2020, 9:20 pm
She could do with some woollens craft https://wigan-peers.forumotion.com/t3529-caption-this-22
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