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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am embarassed to admit that I can solve the mystery of the monkey and the skull. It is a small statue, about 15 inches high, of a chimp sitting on a stack of books (including one titled "Darwin"). The chimp is holding a human skull. The statue is made out of plaster and covered in bronze colored paint. On the back it is signed by M. Lucci. This item definitely qualifies as kitsch rather than art. I happen to own a beat up version of this minor masterpiece, having won it as a booby prize at last year's holiday party. Call me lucky! Kay Logan-Peters Architecture Librarian University of Nebraska-Lincoln On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Marjorie Chenoweth wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Doralynn Pines wrote: > > > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > I, too, remembering seeing this image as a painting, not a sculpture. I've > > looked through a few books in my home library, but couldn't find it. I sugg > > you look at H.W. Janson's APES AND APE LORE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE > > RENAISSANCE, London, 1952. It should be there. > > > > Doralynn Pines > > The Metropolitan Museum of Art > > New York, NY 10028 > > > There is a sculpture -- a bit of kitsch that goes back to the mid 60's > at least. The monkey, holding a human skull, is sitting on a stack of > books > that includes Darwin. I don't have any idea who the sculptor was, but > I'd look in books on kitsch rather than Medieval art. It may have been > a take-off on something earlier, however. > > Marjorie Chenoweth > Library Director > Maryland Institute, College of Art >