Bruce Arnott

Bruce Arnott (15 September 1938 – July 19, 2018) was a South African sculptor, curator, educator and academic. He was a professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town, Michaelis School of Fine Art. Quotes Regularly liberated by the scrap-metal collectors, and carefully restored by the gallery, in a reciprocal exchange of wealth and culture that suggests a subliminal understanding of some of its precepts -bruce-arnott-19382018, www.news.uct.ac.za An idealised concept, a conscious (if ironic) reference to socialist-realist art is intended – in the exploitation of a traditional heroic stance and massive stylised forms. However, I endeavoured to compromise heroic solemnity by making allusions to the theatrical posturing and handle-bar moustaches of that real nineteenth-century popular hero, the pugilist or prize-fighter; and by introducing a sort of stiffness and bowler-hatted formality that might be construed as quintessentially English 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za All sculptures are ‘points of entry’ into the great sculptural megatext 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za An ironic gloss of the genre of the heroic monumental statue 2023-06-07-into-the-megatext-chronicling-the-life-and-work-of-south-african-sculptor-bruce-arnott, www.dailymaverick.co.za External links Category:1938 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Sculptors from South Africa