Art & Commemoration - Eric Gill’s The Moneychangers in Context

WW1A talk by Anne C Brook, in partnership with University of Leeds. In May 1923, papers as far afield as Glasgow and Norfolk carried news of a controversial war memorial being installed in the University of Leeds by sculptor and designer Eric Gill. Gill's depiction of Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple had been commissioned by the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Michael Sadler. Exploring the origins of that commission, and responses to it, Anne Brook places the controversy in the context of other efforts - successful and unsuccessful - to create works of art which satisfied the need for focal points around which the war dead could be remembered.

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