Public art & sculpture · London
Twelve Responses to Tragedy
Twelve Responses to Tragedy in England London, United Kingdom.
A J Paxton — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Twelve Responses to Tragedy is a public sculpture in England London, United Kingdom, dating from 1986. Britain's public art ranges from Henry Moore reclining figures and Anthony Gormley installations to the Angel of the North and the surviving statues of empire.
Photo gallery
From the Wikipedia article
Twelve Responses to Tragedy, or the Yalta Memorial, is a memorial located in the Yalta Memorial Garden on Cromwell Road in South Kensington in west London. The memorial commemorates people displaced as a result of the Yalta Conference at the conclusion of the Second World War. Created by the British sculptor Angela Conner, the work consists of twelve bronze busts atop a stone base. The memorial was dedicated in 1986 to replace a previous memorial (also by Conner) from 1982 that had been repeatedly damaged by vandalism.
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Background
History
Plans for a memorial were initiated after a letter was written to The Spectator in the 1970s signed by Richard West, Patrick Marnham and Auberon Waugh who proposed that a memorial be erected to the "... memory of the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who were forcibly repatriated by the Allies to the Soviet and Yugoslav authorities at the end of the Second World War, a crime that was carefully hushed up at the time and even concealed from Parliament for fear of the outcry that would have resulted". A later letter to The Times calling for a memorial was signed by politicians Bernard Braine, Jo Grimond, Donald J. Stewart, John Mackintosh, James Molyneaux, Gwynfor Evans, Nicholas…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4957, -0.1724
- Established
- 1986
- Official site
- secretldn.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q22570272 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Twelve Responses to Tragedy (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Twelve Responses to Tragedy?
- Twelve Responses to Tragedy is in London, United Kingdom.
- When was Twelve Responses to Tragedy built?
- Built or established in 1986.
- Who owns Twelve Responses to Tragedy?
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