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The Rocket Thrower |
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- In the Court of the Astronauts,
between Pool of Reflections and Fountains of the Fair
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| SCULPTOR |
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- Donald DeLue
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Source: Remembering the Future, Rizzoli Press, Publisher
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| DeLue's piece, The Rocket
Thrower, was a heroic male embodiment of motive power. Occupying
the most prominent location on the Fair's principle axis, the
forty-three foot bronze dominated the central mall. The stylized,
discreetly draped figure balanced on an ascending curve of metal
as he reached toward a constellation of gilded stars. From his
right hand issued a comet-like form rising above the stars and
into the heavens. |
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