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This is General Gordon. I have forgotten was there a past?, 2011 (mixed media)

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LMG3956245
Image title
This is General Gordon. I have forgotten was there a past?, 2011 (mixed media)
Artist
Bob and Roberta Smith (b.1963) / British
Location
Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K.
Medium
mixed media
Date
2011 AD (C21st AD)
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In 2010, Bob and Roberta Smith was commissioned to respond to one of Leeds Art Gallery's late 19th Century paintings. He chose George William Joy's large history painting of the death of General Gordon, General Gordon's Last Stand (1893) . The sculpture is made from found wooden crates, painted with hand-written text, a paint-splattered work bench, an old radio set and a red bucket. The sign-painted text forms a narrative which spirals around the structure and which the viewer must circle in order to read. The text muses on the reaction to news of a contemporary conflict, thoughts about Gordon's death in Khartoum as well the artist's own meeting with his mother.

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© Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
interior / contemporary / display / military / sculpture / george william joy / conceptual / general gordon / installation / conflict / text / memory / modern / forgotten / gallery / writing / paintings / written / museum / gordon's last stand
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