Absurd monument to Yuri Gagarin lambasted
A new monument to honor Yuri Gagarin in Belgrade, Serbia, is meeting with intense criticism and ridicule because of the absurd proportions between the statue, which is of Gagarin’s head, and its overly tall pedestal.
The bust of Yuri Gagarin was ordered by the city council last year, and was put up on a street that bears his name, the Blic news website reports.
But its appearance – a tiny bust on top of a tall plinth – has been met by a hugely negative reaction, the paper says. “The only way you can see it clearly is to launch yourself into the sky,” the Noizz website says. “While this is somewhat symbolic,” adds writer Ivana Stojanov, “there’s certainly no common sense on show”.
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A new monument to honor Yuri Gagarin in Belgrade, Serbia, is meeting with intense criticism and ridicule because of the absurd proportions between the statue, which is of Gagarin’s head, and its overly tall pedestal.
The bust of Yuri Gagarin was ordered by the city council last year, and was put up on a street that bears his name, the Blic news website reports.
But its appearance – a tiny bust on top of a tall plinth – has been met by a hugely negative reaction, the paper says. “The only way you can see it clearly is to launch yourself into the sky,” the Noizz website says. “While this is somewhat symbolic,” adds writer Ivana Stojanov, “there’s certainly no common sense on show”.
You must click on the link to see this.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
It’s like a Hollywood alien head hunters’ monument.
“-We got this one fried alright! What if we try to boil them, or eat them raw?
– That’s a revolutionary idea for gastronomy!”
It’ a government project, so built by the lowest bidder.
But I’ll have a go:
“The plinth represents humanity, while the emerging head symbolizes the first foray into a new and unknown frontier.”
Western Liberal:
“While the dark hue of the monument evokes people of color, the shape and form clearly perpetrate the phallic oppression of the patriarchy. The head of a White man tops the monument, driving home the historical oppression of women and minorities.”
Man, this art critic gig is easy.
Gagarin didn’t die, he just became the God Emperor of Dune.
Still beats Jackson Pollock.
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A bad looking monument to a brave man.
Try again.
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Blair– Good stuff ma’ man! (it’s done in the ‘socialist-realism’ style)
newly updated in 2015
“Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium”
Grand Rapids, Michigan
https://youtu.be/4KCSgapb3is
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