SculptureScape: Muscleman
Click to enlarge. Photo for thegazz.com by Walker DeVille
Charleston has a dearth of impressive outdoor sculpture. This is one for the impressive category. The work is brawny, in a classical fashion, yet does not seem as weighted, heavy and clunky as this other downtown sculpture, which wishes to be light as a feather but fails in that regard. I must quote Samuel Johnson's explanation, when asked by a woman about an error she'd spotted in one of his works: "Ignorance, my dear, pure ignorance." Meaning, I am ignorant of whose sculpture this is and its title. It adorns the side of the Huntington Bank Building downtown. Anyone?
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If you look directly below the left knee of the figure, there is a signature which appears to be Milton Horn (200% zoom, deinterlace, sharpen, unsharp mask with Photoshop/The GIMP makes it much easier to read). Cursory Googling shows a single sculpture in Charleston, "Man Wrests from the Earth Its Natural Resources to Build a Pathway to the Stars". It is, however, listed as being at the National Bank of Commerce building, which I have always assumed was the big box of a building across Capitol Street from Davis Square park due to the large NBC logo. Emporis Buildings , though, states "The street-level facade [of Huntington Square] sports a bronze sculpture by Milton Horn".
This was the second NBOC building built in the early '80s .
cr,Florida
Correction on above.
It was built in the early '70s.
cr,Florida
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