The Sculptor's Funeral is the only podcast dedicated to figurative sculptors living and working today. Art history, tech talk, news, and interviews for the figurative sculptor working in the Western European tradition of figurative sculpture, along with a social media forum and listener mail/questions/comments make this podcast required listening for any sculptor who knows the Fine Arts aren't dead, they just smell a little funny.

Daniel Chester French's greatest work is arguably the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. but where does 'greatness' in art come from? Is it given to the artwork by its creator, or is it, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?

Direct download: Episode_71_-_The_Lincoln_Memorial.mp3
Category:20th Century -- posted at: 2:13am EDT
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Daniel Chester French is mostly remembered for sculpting the colossal Lincoln on the National Mall in Washington DC, but equally, he was America's master of memorials in the late 19th century. From the Minuteman to the Melvin Memorial, he produced works which helped promote the city beautiful movement far beyond the nation's capital.

Direct download: Episode_70_-_Daniel_Chester_French.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 9:12am EDT
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Episode 69 - The World's Fair and the City Beautiful

Is it Paris? Versailles? Venice? ...Chicago, actually! The stunning cityscape you see in  the image was known as the White City, a dreamlike place which existed for a few short years before disappearing - but its legacy lives on in cities and towns all over the United States, part of a phenomenon known as the City Beautiful Movement.

Direct download: -_The_Worlds_Fair_and_the_City_Beautiful.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 8:58am EDT
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Episode 68 - Mother of Exiles

 "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me..."

...The American ideals which the Statue of Liberty represents are hard to trump...

Direct download: Episode_68_-_Mother_of_Exiles.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 2:52pm EDT
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