AH EPSTEIN STATUE
DISPLAYED AT TRADE SHOW SCULPTOR’S STRONG PROTEST. LONDON, December 14. The belief that his art is being degraded by its association with trade has prompted the famous sculptor, Mr Jacob Epstein, to make an indignant protest against the exhibition of his statue “ Genesis,” now the property of Mr Alfred Bossom, M.P., as “ a side show in a trade exhibition, which is disgraceful to people of any sensibility.” The statue is being displayed at a West Bromwich tradesmen’s exhibition, to which Mr Bossom lent it. It is labelled; “ ‘ Genesis ’ by Epstein. The mystery of life. The wonderful creation attracts as it repulses. Proceeds to your local hospital. Admission 3d.” Mr Bossom, in an interview, said that he was assured that “ Genesis ” was not placed among trade exhibits, but shown separately for the hospital funds. An official of the West Bromwich Corporation, which merely hired the hall to the exhibitors, agrees that the statue is unsuitably shown, being in a corridor behind a plot of artificial grass, with small trees and flower pots alongside it. The effect is incongruous, and very bad. People simply look and laugh without understanding. They tlfljuk it is as amusing sideshows
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Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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197AH EPSTEIN STATUE Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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