Synthetic Hero

Synthetic HeroThe figure stands with arms raised in an upreaching, yearning gesture that invokes thoughts of man's...
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Author: Fennel, Erik
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Language: English
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Synthetic Hero

Synthetic Hero

€6,16

Synthetic Hero

€6,16
Author: Fennel, Erik
Format: eBook
Language: English

Synthetic Hero

The figure stands with arms raised in an upreaching, yearning gesture that invokes thoughts of man's potential greatness, and the face seen beneath the helmet wears an expression of inspired nobility and idealism. In the indestructible impervium alloy image that is his masterpiece, Hayden Brush successfully captured the spirit of enthusiasm and adulation which swept the world. In a strange way it is not so much a statue of an individual as of an idea, for the sculptor worked entirely from photographs taken with a telephoto lens. He never met his subject. A plaque on the granite base carries numerous wordssacrifice for the Greater Goodadvancement of Man's frontiersconquest of disease and death. And a name, George Carlin. Whenever I read that I recall the ancient witticism about this history being the fabric of accepted lies. In it there is much truth. On the moon is another shrine, unvisited because the surface of Luna is still a perilous and inhospitable place. No compelling work of art is to be found there. Nothing but a roughly circular blasted area containing scattered fragments of spaceship hull that scorch in the direct sunlight and freeze in the unrelieved darkness, riddled by colonies of creeping moon-lice that penetrate the toughest metal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64515
Author: Fennel, Erik
Release Date: Feb 10, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Vestal, Herman B., 1916-2007

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