Wollstonecraft revisited

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Taken from this FT piece by Helen Barrett. who defends Maggi Hambling's statue in tediously familiar terms:

You may or may not like it. But what is it about Ms Hambling’s work that provokes open attack? Perhaps her critics feel threatened by the artist herself: her iconoclasm and lack of regard for popular opinion. She does not conform, and that is unsettling. There is something of the Wollstonecraft about her.

Ooh I don't know. Perhaps it's because the Martin Jennings statue is about Mary Wollstonecraft, whereas Maggi Hambling's is about Maggi Hambling.

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    Michael van der Riet

    Helen, what is the visual equivalent of a tin ear?

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