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Krzysztof Wodiczko's "Homeless Projection" and the Site of Urban "Revitalization"

For all that has gone wrong here, there are still reminders within the square itself of what a grand civic environment this once was. There are bronze fountains and some of the citys finest statuary. The best of the statues are Henry Kirke Brown and John Quincy Wards equestrian statue of Washington, with a Richard Upjohn base, and Karl Adolf Donndorfs mother and children atop a bronze fountain base. There is also an immense flagstaff base, 9 Y2 feet high and 36 feet in diameter, with bas-reliefs by Anthony de Francisci symbolizing the forces of good and evil in the Revolutionary War; even if a derelict is relieving himself beside it, it has a rather majestic presence. 1

Hiroshima After Iraq: A Study in Art and War*

OCTOBER 131, Winter 2010, pp. 3–22.