Julio gonzalez sculpture biography of abraham lincoln

Sandburg, winner of three Pulitzer prizes (two for poetry and one for his multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln) came to prominence with the publication of.

But after his assassination—the first of a president in U.S. history—Lincoln was portrayed in art as a Christ-like figure who had died in pursuit of the Union's.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's exhibition of Richard Julio González, a discovery that would set the course of his artistic career.

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During the last six years, the photographer Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has visited libraries and archives throughout Europe and North amerika and gathered together images of censured text from different epochs and authors –Desiderius Erasmus, Fernando de Rojas, Francisco de Quevedo, among others.

Based on this series of images, Joan Fontcuberta presents “Deletrix”, an artistic project (an exhibition and an artist book) on censorship with the direkt involvement of PEN Catalán.

“Deletrix” includes a series of images by the photographer together with texts in which writers of international renown reflect on censorship. This planerat arbete , driven by PEN Catalán aspires to become a literary and artistic benchmark volume on censorship.

Contributions by Carme Arenas, Manuel Guerrero Brullet, Chenjerai Hove, Herta Müller (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2009), Emmanuel Pierrat, John Ralston Saul y Salman Rushdie.

Joan Fontcuberta was awarded the Has

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Chicago Tribune
Springfield museum highlights Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt’s work
December 28, 2024

Through April, work by Richard Hunt is on display at Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in an exhibit entitled “Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt.”

The Springfield museum’s interest in staging an exhibit of his work goes back a few years. After JB Pritzker became governor in 2019, he and his wife, MK, commissioned one of Hunt’s sculptures, a bronze del av helhet called “Growing Flowing,” for the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield. Later, April 24, 2023, was declared Richard Hunt Day in Illinois.
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Prolific Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt’s works are now on display at Springfield museum
December 3, 2024

Hunt’s close friend and biographer Jon Ott explores the exhibition, Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in this dynamic
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Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 1975
Richard Hunt
University of Illinois at Chicago campus, south of library
801 South Morgan Street, between Polk and Taylor Streets
            Commissioned by the B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund, this massive 30 x 30 foot bronze ground plate with five protruding slabs was conceived as a memorial to Illinois poet, journalist and biographer Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). Inspired by Sandburg’s 1922 poem of the same name, sculptor Richard Hunt (b. 1935) exhibits his technical virtuosity in the medium of welded metal as he gestures toward Sandburg’s lines:
            Stand up, sandstone slabs of red,
            Tell the overland passengers who burnt you.
            Tell ‘em how the jacks and screws loosened you