The New Statue of Mary Wolstonecroft by Maggie Hamling

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Mary, we're looking at these questions, andi'm going to try to get through at least one more. What do you think of the new statue of mary wolstonecroft by maggie hamling? At oesn't do her justice? We are still upset or statues. We are. Thank you so much, mary beard, and congratulations on the new book.

What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the ideas in her new book Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern. To follow along with the images referenced in the podcast visit: https://intelligencesquared.com/slides/

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