Saturday, September 10, 2011

Children in the Ruins

by Robert Boyd

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Erich Schlegel/Getty Images, 2011


This sculpture is in front of the burned remains of a house on Lake Bastrop. The house burned on September 6. ("Texas Drought and Wildfires, Boston.com.) I am reminded of this:

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Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Barmaley Fountain, Stalingrad, 1942

This is the Barmaley Fountain--a jolly piece of sculpture illustrating a rather macabre children's poem by Korney Chukovsky.  This photo was taken during the Battle of Stalingrad.


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3 comments:

  1. Who is the little kid in the bottom right, crawling towards the statue?

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    1. No idea--it is a shot from the middle of the battle. You can see the buildings in the background are still burning.

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    2. It is a statue of a frog, though it does look like a baby crawling.

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