This is the audio version of the blog post 'The Strand Statues'. The post was written by Leonora Monson, who did a student placement with the Courtauld Connects Conway Library digitisation project. It was first published on 24 January 2020. The audio version is read by David Brown, a digitisation volunteer.
In this blog Leonora explains the story of commission, controversy, and iconoclasm surrounding Jacob Epstein's statues on the Strand. Designed for and installed on what was the British Medical Association's building at 429 Strand, the statues showing human forms of birth, life, and death quickly generated a public debate, which resulted in some statues being damaged and removed. The Conway Library collection includes photographs of the statues in Epstein's studio, in situ on the Strand, and in their final home across the Atlantic...
You can find the written version with images on our blog http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/01/24/leonora-monson-epsteins-eighteen-nude-statues/
