The Independent - London, March 7th, 2001
LATE IN 1953, the young sculptor Douglas Wain-Hobson woke up to find that his name had made the national press, but not as he would have wanted. He had joined that growing band of artists whose work aggravated the Great British Public. "That statue" became so notorious that it was making news several weeks later.
The offending item was Wain- Hobson's Recovery (not his title), a bronze, life-size figure of a naked man, half-crouching with his hands raised, sited on a brick plinth before the newly refurbished St James's Hospital, Balham, in south London. This commission, meant to signify recove...
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