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janterry

(4,429 posts) Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:31 AM Nov 2020

Nude Statue Honoring Mary Wollsonecraft Sparks Controversy [View all]

Arguments abound:

How many of our important male writers are depicted naked in their statues? You never see Charles Dickens with his balls out, do you? https://t.co/hL8XzcjmKp
— Dr Laura Wood (@cooksferryqueen) November 10, 2020

The sculptor says: She's everywoman and clothes would have restricted her. Statues in Historic costume look like they belong to history because of their clothes."

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Nude Statue Honoring Mary Wollsonecraft Sparks Controversy [View all] janterry Nov 2020 OP

Gee they only have been doing nudes in art for like a billion years. What is the problem? Botany Nov 2020 #1

She was an important thinker, a philosopher janterry Nov 2020 #3

Also mother to Mary Shelly... Ztolkins Nov 2020 #9

Don't think Maggi Hambling has really read the room with this statue. Tiny naked woman on a big wave soothsayer Nov 2020 #2

Now that you mention the wave, janterry Nov 2020 #5

looks even worse from further away eShirl Nov 2020 #4

oh, geez janterry Nov 2020 #6

someone said she's emerging from a fatberg and I can't unsee it eShirl Nov 2020 #7

had to look that up janterry Nov 2020 #17

ok this is where it is fucked up. mopinko Nov 2020 #8

It's a piece of art. Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #10

sure, but it's a statue commissioned to honor her and her work janterry Nov 2020 #11

And the artist thought this was the best way to do it. Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #12

She, and yes. eShirl Nov 2020 #13

I would have janterry Nov 2020 #15

"Statues in historic costume... 3catwoman3 Nov 2020 #14

One would either assume Wollsonecraft was a nudists, or . . . OneBro Nov 2020 #16

Thread: demmiblue Nov 2020 #18

I saw a closeup of the statue janterry Nov 2020 #19