The Falconer by Tom Bass

Date Created: 01 October 2019

Author: Thomas Dwyer Bass AM (6 June 1916 – 26 February 2010) a renowned Australian sculptor

Source: The Internet

Owner: Peter Miller, University of New South Wales

Location: NSW, Australia

Link to: Website

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  • 20th Century
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The Falconer - Tom Bass

This 14 metre high sculpture was completed in 1955 for the University of New South Wales.

The sculpture was designed to convey the ideal that every student of the University should be to some extent an artist, giving due consideration to the aesthetic factors in all their professional activities, whether they be an engineer, geologist or architect etc. In response to the brief Tom Bass drew inspiration from Herbert Read's poem "The falcon and the dove", its powerful images inspiring him to create his "analogy for the conflict between the value of beauty and the unrestrained function of the intellect".

Source: Uni of NSW Art Collection

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