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Bruce Arnott
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“Regularly liberated by the scrap-metal collectors, and carefully restored by the gallery, in a reciprocal exchange of wealth and culture that suggests a subliminal understanding of some of its precepts”
Bruce Arnott (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An idealised concept, a conscious (if ironic) reference to socialist-realist art is intended – in the exploitation of a traditional heroic stance and massive stylised forms. However, I endeavoured to compromise heroic solemnity by making allusions to the theatrical posturing and handle-bar moustaches of that real nineteenth-century popular hero, the pugilist or prize-fighter; and by introducing a sort of stiffness and bowler-hatted formality that might be construed as quintessentially English”
Bruce Arnott (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za
“All sculptures are ‘points of entry’ into the great sculptural megatext”
Bruce Arnott (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za
“An ironic gloss of the genre of the heroic monumental statue”
Bruce Arnott (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za