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Statues or no statues? That is the question…

Posted by on 11 juillet 2021

A very interesting analysis on how and why we react to statues and how to stop the fuss, maybe…

Diana,  Wollstonecraft,  Wilde …  why  do  we  keep  getting  it  so  wrong  with  our  statues?

Members of the public view the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London on 2 July.

The Princess of Wales sculpture is the latest example of our strained relationship with this controversial art form

Members of the public view the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, London on 2 July. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
Another statue, another dance of media and culture. Last week, on what would have been her 60th birthday, Princes William and Harry unveiled a bronze likeness of their mother Princess Diana by the sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley. Located in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, it includes three unnamed children standing about her.

The occasion combined respectful expressions of sympathy for the princess and her sons with frantic readings of the runes – who wasn’t there (Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cambridge) and what did that mean? What could you learn from the princes’ body language about their relationship to each other?

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