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Re: The value of public funded art
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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Yeah...it was the same with them all.
No doubt if the arts bureaucrats had been around in 1919/20 the Ossy War Memorial would have been a couple of stone slabs pulled out the Tinker Brook, set in concrete with a crotcheted wool tea cosy bunged on the top, paid for by the taxpayer.
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Sounds a bit gung ho, and a gloryfication of mans' inhumanity to man.
More likely to be different coloured stones from around the world, linked in a circle by living ivy, to symbolise peaceful humanity...with a tea-cosy in the middle.
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