Item - Falconer
| ID | UNSW S 1955/0267 (082042) |
| Artist | Tom BASS (1916 - 2010) |
| Title | Falconer |
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| Category | Sculpture |
| Medium | electrolytic copper |
| Materials | electrolytic copper |
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| Measurements (cms) | |
| Height | 1400.00 |
| Width | 550.00 |
| Depth | 20.00 |
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| Produced | |
| When | 1955 |
| Where | Australia, NSW, Sydney |
| Style | Narrative |
| Subject | Allegory |
| Credit Line | Commissioned by the University for the first permanent building, 1953 |
| Description/Remarks | The sculpture was designed to convey the ideal that every student of the University should be to some extent an artist, giving due consideration to the aesthetic factors in all their professional activities, whether they be an engineer, geologist or architect etc. In response to the brief Tom Bass drew inspiration from Herbert Read's poem "The falcon and the dove", its powerful images inspiring him to create his "analogy for the conflict between the value of beauty and the unrestrained function of the intellect". |
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| Bibliography | Poignant, A., New University Statuary, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney NSW Australia, 1954, 28 August; page 10. ISBN Sculptor's Symbolism for New University, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney NSW Australia 1955, 22 March; page 10. ISBN The Falconer, The New South Wales University of Technology, Kensington NSW Australia, 1956, ill. front page; text pg 2. ISBN Uniken issue No. 7, Sculpture - The University of New South Wales, UNSW, Kensington NSW Australia, 1975, ISBN Rumley, K. with Carrick, J., Integrating Art on Campus: The University of New South Wales Collection UNSW, Kensington NSW Australia, 1992,, pg. 46; ill. pg.47 ISBN 0 7334 0262 3 |
