We’ve written a new text on Marta Minujin’s incredible James Joyce Tower in Bread sculpture which was constructed on the streets of Dublin in 1980s.
Fire engines, cranes, and volunteers helped move the tower onto its side. Local people stripped it of its loaves (“Didja bring any butter, missus?”), staggering home with their arms laden with bread.
References were made by critics to ‘process sculpture’, transubstantiation and communion, Irish literature, and the ‘annihilation of the notion of art’.
Read it here.