Statue to honour Wollstonecraft

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www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/mary-wollstonecraft-finally-honoured-with-statue-after-200-years

It's a naked woman..

Currently reading A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for an OU course, and - unless the tone changes dramatically in the second half of it - I'm not seeing how an idealised nude is the right statue to convey anything about her?

Agreed. That peculiar bush is following me around the room. It's like a small mammal is nestling there

@Cwenthryth

If I'd donated to the fund, I'd be most unimpressed. I did, and I am most unimpressed. Fucking fuming actually.

Oh no! I’d be seeking any way possible to get money back. It’s an offensive piss take, not a tribute.

Mala “ So much of art these days is about the ego of the artist. I've noticed this for a long time. And imo it makes for inferior art.”

This.

Thank you to the resisters

£143K for that ?. Guess every one can just thank their own personal deity that there were no blokes (Adult Male Humans) involved in all this sculpt-shambles.

Someone on Facebook has described it as
a penis ejaculating a Barbie doll.

I have an artist friend who has tried defending it to me, saying Maggie Hambling always gets a lot of flack. I told her she deserved it in this case!

This is an awesome statue or statues or sculptures. Not sure which is right. 🙃

Cwenryth oh I didn’t know about Lapper’s son passing away. That’s awful. I am so sad for her. For them both. The sculpture was fantastic, I remember going to see it on the fourth plinth.

I saw this on the news last night. I don't get why she is nude. I have no problems with nudes but felt for this it was inappropriate.

@RoyalCorgi

The tiny size of the statue makes me wonder whether this was some kind of Spinal Tap-style cockup, where she was given the measurements in inches rather than feet.

OMG this makes so much sense!

Reuters picture agency are now using the pictures of Julia Long and the adult human female t shirt to promote the story about the statue. It's in the Metro

That's going to cause an enormous rage meltdown.

Well done ✅

Pink News will have to write 475 articles about Mary. It will be draped in the trans flag. Naked women statues will suddenly become the most important thing a trans ally can do. Every one laughing at it will be a *erf.

In case it's removed from the Metro.

Such great photos.

Where are the books? Or the quill? She was a woman of words.

@Escapeplanning

Pink News will have to write 475 articles about Mary. It will be draped in the trans flag. Naked women statues will suddenly become the most important thing a trans ally can do. Every one laughing at it will be a *erf.

Also bad feminists = prudes. I'm waiting for them to misinterpret MW's affair and views on sex to conclude that she was a porn loving Lib fem who'd freaking love to be immortalised as a miniature silver Barbie doll with a protruding bush.

I prefer the John Olive portrait.

Strange that a long-dead man has given her more dignity.

Opie not olive

@Malahaha

Haven't read the whole thread but am I the only one to think that the statue's pubes look a little -- well, knobbish? Like a blob planted there?

I've never seen a naked women with such um bulky pubes. Especially so in this full frontal image. twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1326318289488732160

Now going back to page 4 to catch up.

Some of the replies to that twitter thread are funny!

“I think that's Tilda Swinton.”

“What’s going on with her mons pubis? ... I have questions”

“Apparently, the artist likes to "subvert expectations" which, again, is art world speak for "I am an asshole and I'm cashing this check you square."

@ArabellaScott

Butterer, that Oscar Wilde statue looks like the muppet character that comes out of a dustbin. As has been noted by various people, Hambling is not really a sculptor. She doesn't seem to have a good understanding of 3D work. I feel sorry for her here, actually, as I think she is genuine and will have had good intent, but somebody should have looked at the ridiculous statue and said 'sorry, no'.

Agreed re Oscar Wilde statue. It's awful too