{"id":7214,"date":"2010-05-18T02:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2010-05-18T02:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:34:29","slug":"three-heads-six-arms-by-zhang-huan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/05\/18\/three-heads-six-arms-by-zhang-huan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Heads Six Arms by Zhang Huan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new sculpture by Chinese artist Zhang Huan<\/a> which was officially dedicated in San Francisco’s City Hall Plaza last week. The photo is by Flickr user David Dasinger<\/a> and similar views can be found in this Flickr pool<\/a>. Huan’s copper figures may be intended to evoke Buddhist serenity but I can never see that plaza without remembering the horrible ending of Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three Heads Six Arms<\/em> is part of a series of monumental works depicting the fragmented extremities of Buddhist statues. The series was inspired by Zhang\u2019s discovery of religious sculptures that had been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution for sale in a Tibetan market. (More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via Erik Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Arnaldo Pomodoro<\/a>
\n\u2022 Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dead monuments<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Igor Mitoraj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new sculpture by Chinese artist Zhang Huan which was officially dedicated in San Francisco’s City Hall Plaza last week. The photo is by Flickr user David Dasinger and similar views can be found in this Flickr pool. Huan’s copper figures may be intended to evoke Buddhist serenity but I can never see that plaza … Continue reading “Three Heads Six Arms by Zhang Huan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,31,41],"tags":[700,1686,6590,1319,1318],"class_list":["post-7214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-religion","category-sculpture","tag-eduardo-paolozzi","tag-erik-davis","tag-igor-mitoraj","tag-philip-kaufman","tag-zhang-huan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}