Not like Everest at all

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  • 28/07/2023

    Not like Everest at all

    Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art | The Economist

    Why do humans make sculpture? George Mallory is supposed to have said he wanted to climb Mount Everest simply because it was there. Sculpture’s special power, by contrast—the reason why Phyllida Barlow made sculpture at all—is that it isn’t there. That was where her adventure began.