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My main concern about the Wollstonecraft/Hambling discussion is now not about whether it's good or not or if it's suitable you represent the legacy of the subject, but a concern that it's just feeding the trad-trolls who think all art has to be a human likeness on a plinth.
Just like the recent Phillipson ice cream in Trafalgar Square became central to the trad-art cultural war, and it had to be defended as legitimate & useful art even if it's a bit crap. https://twitter.com/willjennings80/status/1289964707156123650?s=19
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If there were remotely as much public art honouring women as there are of white men, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But because public space is built for & about men, this sculpture has to do a LOT of work, & would be hard not to piss people off whatever it looked like.
