...The inspiration for the work came to de Monchaux when he saw transcripts of Sir Winston's speeches in the archive of the Imperial War Museum. Churchill's staffers were told to write his wartime messages in "psalm style" - typed blocks of indented text stepped diagonally down the page. De Monchaux was struck by his subject's "awareness of the way in which the shape of the spaces around words can amplify their meaning...
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Friday, March 18, 2005
The Currency Lad: It Doesn't Even Look Like Winston Churchill
The Currency Lad, an Australian blogger, gives us a good look at a modern art sculpture supposedly meant to celebrate Winston Churchill. It's actually not a bad looking sculpture, in my humble opinion, but I quake at the price tag, and C.L.'s right - it doesn't look the least little bit like Churchill.
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