According to an article by Zephira Davis in the August 13, 2017 issue of The New York Times (“An Icon of Communism is Restored in England” ), due to the efforts of artist Phil Collins who is using it in a project, a statue of Friedrich Engels has been erected in Manchester, England where Engels conducted his research on the working class. The statue, originally erected in the eastern Ukraine, had been torn down and cut in half after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Now it is restored and sitting in front of the HOME Theater. What does this say about the possibility of an afterlife for a disgraced artwork?
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AIC Blog Archives: Conservators Converse
Former Blog of the American Institute for Conservation