we need a chart for statues

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who has the most? (popularity measured by quantity obv)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

those crazy erewhonians, obv

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

separate charts to be drawn up for
i. statuettes (ie if you can put it on yr desk)
ii. busts
iii. religious rather than historical figures (because the faces on religious statues don't represent an actual person, even if the religious figure was actually historical)
iv. Generic Tommies

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

what about lawn gnomes?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(sorry bob you lost me already!!)

(i meant: what person has the most statues made of him/her a. in the UK, b. in the US, c. in Dunedin, d. worldwide, e. other)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

lawn gnomes aren't statues jess

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm Constantine I had a bunch but lots were destroyed by the iconoclasts.

In the US I think George Washington. Although David is always popular.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 23 September 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"destroyed by the iconoclasts" = "out of fashion" = "fair enough"

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 September 2002 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

do statues come back into fashion?

so far we have had a bid for the #1 in 800AD: but what's #1 now?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The Glorious Dead, obv.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

that's "Generic Tommy" sam — we decided they shd be placed on one side as the statues are almost never of someone specifiuc

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Victoria's got have a good shot of it in ex-empire nations and good ole Blighty. But wither Lenin & Stalin - havbe they gone down the charts in recent years?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

UK Statue Top 4 (images of real historical figures) (provisional):

1. Queen Victoria
2. Prince Albert
3. Winston Churchill
4. Oliver Cromwell

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Wellington?

My best London statue at the mo is the one of Samuel Johnson on the Strand (I think). (apart of course from massive fuckoff lion on Waterloo Bridge (I think))

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.yasgur.net/statues.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

go the garden gnomes... my nana had heaps of them, evil little things they are too.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to think that Beethoven is No 1 in busts.

― Ellie (Ellie), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

can we include gargoyles this time? please?

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ellie, Lenin *totally* rules over Beethoven in the bust chart.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oxford has more of those than anywhere else.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

gargoyles get their own chart unless you know their names jon

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather have a municipal building named after me. Or an airport.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll get right on it.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

SUPERLAMBBANANA

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

or badges? The Kim Il Sung could win. his badges are 3d so could count as public sculpture ...

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

that's a relief

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly Elvis rules cheap porcelain busts - especially in the two stylistically distict sub-categories: 1)Spray on 'gold leaf', and 2)Turquoise and black airbrush.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I miss mark s.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

once I passed this place in paris that sold those little busts of people, like those mini-beethovens that some composers keep on their pianos (which composers, I don't know, but that seems plausible) and they made them to order; I was tempted to get one of myself to put on my writing desk.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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