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Article: SCULPTURE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1994
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In 1775, when William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield,
commissioned his portrait from the painter David Martin he asked to
be shown in contemplation of a bust of Homer. For the last 200
years, this advertisement for aristocratic erudition has hung in
Murray's library at Kenwood House, with the bust itself close at
hand. Recently, however, only a few steps away, another image of
the epic poet has been installed. On a metal tripod sits a lump of
clay. This is another way of seeing Homer which points the way to a
new interpretation of the Iliad that Murray, for all his boastful
classicism, would be hard-pressed to understand.
This is Homer as seen by Anthony Caro. At the age of 70, the ...