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Lisa Vives's avatar

What a shame. Good thing you were there to catch the snap!

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

The self-escalating violence of mobs is truly frightening. But better statues than people--in pretty much all cases. ;)

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Carol Vassar's avatar

The French were pretty unhappy with the church and deliberately disfigured church statuary.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

Oh yeah. Much pf that unhappiness was assiduously earned and--minus the guillotine--not unwarranted.

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Carol Vassar's avatar

Quite

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Janet Van Fleet's avatar

I'm reminded of the wonderful sculptures of Magdalena Abakanowicz, who made bodies without heads or heads without bodies (less often), but not together...

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

Looked her up. she is quite wonderful. thanks. i try to add a shot of her and the headless ones to the page

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Jonathan Allen's avatar

Amazing what fanatics and zealots, whether religious of political, will do. Of course they also behead real people as well as statues.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

You are so right, and yes, we do it to people, too.

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