British artist Hambling sparks furor with nude monument to feminist icon

British artist Hambling sparks furor with nude monument to feminist icon

The Jakarta Post-Lifestyle·2020-11-11 15:00

British artist Maggi Hambling, whose monument to feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft went on display in London on Tuesday, said the pioneering thinker would be "dancing a jig" over Kamala Harris becoming the first female US vice president.

Hambling paid tribute to Wollstonecraft as "the forerunner of feminism" and lamented the lack of statues to women in the British capital, where campaigners say more than 90 percent of monuments commemorate men.

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