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Sunday, July 30, 2006
Does this sculpture really exist? Or has someone been playing with Photoshop?
In Melbourne Australia one presumes. Sorry I should know. I'm not that up-to-date on Australia. Anyway, it's simple but good!
[update] it's a statue of Latrobe, as interpreted by Charles Robb. According to Flickr poster EdwardAggie98, the explanatory plaque near the works states:«Contemporary artist Charles Robb's tribute to Charles La Trobe is in part a sincere homage to this relatively under acknowledged figure of Melbourne colonial history, but also a critique of Nineteenth Century value systems. Despite his enormous contributions to Melbourne development, La Trobe remains unrepresented in Melbourne's public monuments. Robb's inversion of La Trobe questions the purpose of public monuments, and their meaning in contemporary society.»Technorati Tags: public art, Melbourne, puppy, sculpture
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