There is much to say about statues, and public art in
general, and I am surprised, looking back over nearly 40 years of writing about
things Illinoisan, that I have said so much of it.
There is, for a start, my column in this paper from 2012, “Faith,
hope and statuary.”
More meaty in every
way—oh, for a return to the days when newspapers could give writers space for a
4600-word book review—was this 1988 piece in The Reader in which I reviewed new books about sculptor Lorado Taft and
public art in Chicago.
This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2014.
