A Mighty Blow for Freedom by Michael Sandle

17 September 2011photo

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Angular dark bronze figure in a helmet swinging a hammer into a spiked box, in front of a large ring, on a paved square with trees behind

Michael Sandle’s 1988 bronze, full title A Mighty Blow for Freedom: Fuck the Media, swaps the Rank gongman for a helmeted figure taking a hammer to a television. It’s one of three casts—the others are in Glasgow and Lincoln—and this one still stands outside the market on Midsummer Boulevard.