A piece in the Guardian this week speaks with sculpture Maggi Hambling over her nude sculpture of feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft, and her vision for the work, defying those criticizing her nude depiction.  “The figure had to be nude because clothes define people,†she says. “Put someone in country tweeds and they become horsey. Put someone in period dress and they become part of history. I didn’t want to do that to her.â€
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