"GENESIS."
STATUE EXHIBITED IN INCONGRUOUS SETTING. EPSTEIN ANNOYED. ■ LONDON, Dec.l. i The belief that his art is being degraded by its association with trade ;has prompted the famous seulptor, i Jacob • Epstein, to make.an indign'anf | protest against the exhibition df his [ statue "Genesis," now the property i of Mr. Alfred Bossom, M.P., as "a: | side-show in a trade exhibition, which jis disgraceful to people df any senj sibility." : The statue is being displayed at a 'West- Bromwich. tradesmen's exjiibi- : tion, • to which Mr. Bossom lent it. It . is labelled: "Genesis, by Epstein. The mystery of life. The wonderful creati'on attracts as it repulses. Prbceeds to your" local hospital. Admission 3d." Mr. Bossom, in an interview, says that he is assured that "GenesiS" was rio't placed am,ong the trade exhibits, but shown separately for the hospital funds. An official bf the West Bromwich Corporation, which merely hired the hall to the exhibitors, agrees that the statue is unsuitably shown,. being in a corridor behind a plot of artificial grass, with small trees and flower pots alongside it. The effect is incongruous and very bad. People simply look and laugh without understanding. They think it is an amusing side-show.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 January 1932, Page 2
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