by Susan | Dec 5, 2016 | Monuments
The Winter War began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the League on 14 December 1939. Finland ceded...
by Susan | Nov 28, 2016 | Monuments
It looked like a good sign when a former mayor of Kars, Turkey commissioned sculptor Mehmet Aksoy to build his “Monument to Humanity”: two large figures—a divided human—that stood almost 100-feet tall and included a giant hand, palm open and facing toward Armenia....
by Susan | Nov 21, 2016 | Monuments
At the West Entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the elongated figures of Jacob Epstein’s Social Consciousness (1954) suggest sympathy, tenderness and sorrow for human suffering. The three parts of Social Consciousness are (left to right) The Great Consoler (or...
by Susan | Nov 14, 2016 | Monuments
This monument was fashioned in 1995 by Mennonites Esther K Augsburger and her son, Michael, from 3,000 guns collected by the District of Columbia Police in a buyback program funded by heavyweight boxing champ Riddick Bowe. The inspiration was Isaiah 2:4: “They...
by Susan | Nov 7, 2016 | Monuments, Uncategorized
Most descriptions of the elaborate statue that stands in Peace Circle in front of the US Capitol begin, “The Peace Monument is a war memorial . . . ” It was erected in 1877-78 to commemorate naval deaths at sea during the Civil War, and was originally...
by Susan | Oct 31, 2016 | Monuments
In the John Lennon Park at 17th and 6th in Havana is a sculpture of former Beatle John Lennon, sculpted by Cuban artist José Villa Soberón. On a marble tile at the foot of the bench there is an inscription: “Dirás que soy un soñador pero no soy el único,” the...
