At 12:31 PM 1/14/2002, Ann Trowbridge wrote:

>Patrons and the public have long been there breathing down the necks of
>artists creating public art ...as we know from Vasari's famous anecdote of
>Michaelangelo's feigned "trimming" of the nose of David ...but do the
>artists and art historians on the list have the sense that we trust artists
>less than ever before to evoke the universal (or just do a good job)?
Here in the buckle of the bible belt, Rock Hill commissioned four identical
statues for the gateway to the city to represent Civitas or some such
thing. The statues are four young women, tastefully clad in floor to
ceiling drapery, holding wreaths in their outstretched hands. I am told the
artist was made to - er, de-emphasize certain frontal and rear protrusions
on these ladies. Makes me hurt every time we drive by.
Anne

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