Giant Saint-Just head on BBC2!

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Just turned on BBC2 after that last post to see a man wheeling a giant gold head of Saint-Just across a stretch of lawn! Which was very unexpected!
It was an item on the late Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'Little Sparta'! - so if anyone here can get the 'within-7-days' BBC watch again facility for The Culture Show it should be online for a few days (23.20, BBC2, Thursday 24th). The presenter seems weirdly unaware that the garden is a homage to Saint-Just and the Revolution...duh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/2008/07/s5_e8_land2/index.shtml
This might work (? - the Land Art 2 article on the website).

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[pevampire.livejournal.com]

giant head of Saint-Just........ that's somehow funny and cool at the same time
Unfortunately, the video wouldn't show....technical problem?

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a shame - I think it may be because of licence fee issues: every household in Britain pays a compulsory licence fee to fund the BBC - it's something like £150 a year! - so it may be that BBC online isn't available oveseas because of that (??). However, the head is called 'Apollon Terroriste" http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/1310841507_d7c74d4843.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/yellowbookltd/1310841507/&start=1&h=334&w=500&sz=179&tbnid=EKvirJ6a_VqQ1M:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&hl=en&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dapollon%2Bterroriste%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DN&um=1 - I hope that link works, but if not you can Google image search and there are a lot of online pages on Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Amazingly, the TV article opened with the presenter flying over a field where a speech of Saint-Just's is carved on giant slabs of rock, then the camera zoomed in on another carved quotation, the gold head, and other sculptures including what looked like a bust of Robespierre on a windowledge - and the presenter just said the artist was "inspired by the classical world"!

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[pevampire.livejournal.com]

Oh I've seen it now. That's a bit cool but why does Saint-Just look so tired????;_; But still I'd like to have one <-
I've been collecting figures of my favorite animation characters and etc. but unfortunately, they don't have anything for er.....revolutionaries.....