{"id":10706,"date":"2014-11-11T14:49:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10706"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:49:50","slug":"tower-of-london-poppy-art-installation-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/tower-of-london-poppy-art-installation-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower of London Poppy Art Installation \/ Landscape Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHere is the text of the above video reviews of Paul Cummins and Tom Piper’s Blood-swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread. <\/em>
\nThe poppy installation at the Tower of London is by Paul Cummins, a ceramic artist, with help from Tom Piper, a stage designer. Its name comes from a Derbyshire man who died in Flanders. He wrote of The blood-swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread. There are eight hundred and eight-eight thousand two hundred and forty six poppies: for each British and Colonial death in the First World War.
\nThe Prime Minister, David Cameron<\/strong>, told the House of Commons it was a stunning display, and extremely poignant.
\nThe Washington Post<\/strong> described the installation as \u2018a must-see on the tourist trail.
\nCNN John McCrae\u2019s famous poem, which launched the poppy metaphor: In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place.
\nThe Professor of the History of War at King\u2019s College<\/strong>, observed that : Since the war is still generally misunderstood, such popular interest is encouraging, and the more people who have an opportunity to visit the poppies the better.
\nThe Mayor of London<\/strong> called for the installation to be kept in place a bit longer. A spokesperson from the Historic Royal Palaces responded that The transience of the installation is key to the artistic concept, with the dispersal of the poppies into hundreds of thousands of homes marking the final phase of this evolving installation\u2019.
\nThe actress, Sheila Hancock<\/strong>, suggested that the poppies should be mown down by a tank to commemorate the horror of war.
\nJonathan Jones, an art critic with The Guardian<\/strong>, also wanted more horror. He argued that In spite of the mention of blood in its title, this is a deeply aestheticised, prettified and toothless war memorial,
\nRobert Hardman, for the Daily Mail<\/strong>, responded by calling him a Sneering Left-wing art critic.
\nSo what do I think?<\/strong> Well, as an art installation, it\u2019s hard to fault. As a war memorial, one might think it lacks pathos. But the 1-for-1 symbolism and the fact that the poppies are frozen in time save it from being floral bedding.
\nFor pure pathos a moat-filling tank of red liquid, inspired by Richard Wilson\u2019s installation at the Saatchi Gallery, would have been more telling – and could have evolved into the water-filled moat the Tower needs. But I doubt if this would have raised any money for soldiers\u2019 charities – as the poppies most certainly have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the text of the above video reviews of Paul Cummins and Tom Piper’s Blood-swept lands and seas of red, where angels fear to tread. The poppy installation at the Tower of London is by Paul Cummins, a ceramic artist, with help from Tom Piper, a stage designer. Its name comes from a Derbyshire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}