Christina Bothwell (American, born 1960) , While You Were Sleeping , 2007 .
Tag: sculpture
This figure is obviously inspired by Ridley Scott’s Alien movie and is found on Paisley Abbey in Scotland where it was added during repair works carried out in the early 1990s
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Brancusi v. United States
Did you know Constantin Brancusi was at the center of one of the most significant clashes of art and law in history? In 1926, the sculptor shipped a version of his Bird in Space from Paris to New York where officials refused to let it enter as art. They said it couldn’t be a sculpture because it didn’t look like a bird. In the court case that followed, Brancusi’s team proved that artists may create sculptures that don’t look exactly like something from real life.
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📷: MoMA Collection bronze versions of “Bird in Space,” now on view in Constantin Brancusi Sculpture
Fragmentary colossal marble head of a youth at Metropolitan Museum
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Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Undine Rising from the Waters, 1880’s, by Chauncey Ives (1810-1894)
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