Above: the new giant sculpture planned for the Olympic Park in east London has generated a lot of comment in the media. This is an article written by Fiona Phillips in the Daily Mirror. I kept looking at the design of the sculpture and thinking how it reminded me of something.
Above: it reminded me of the designs by Vladimir Tatlin for his Monument to the IIIrd International 1919. The same type of construction, the same heroic scale, the same chorus of disapproval. It was meant to symbolise the arrival of a new utopian world (but it was never built).
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatlin's_Tower
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