Poetry of metal
Author: Brian Dillon
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Source: The Guardian, Saturday 25 July 2009
Vladimir Tatlin's tower in St Petersburg was never built - yet it has inspired generations of artists. Why does it still have such mystique, asks Brian Dillon
In the heart of St Petersburg, on the north bank of the Neva, the spire of the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul lances the sky like a baroque syringe. But the spire has been surpassed, for height and force, by a structure that soars slantwise some 400 metres into the air, and prods the clouds like an accusing finger.
The building - if that is what it is - spans the river and presents to a viewer of its eastern aspect a flat, grey lattice that might be a crane or a vast gun emplacement levelled ...
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2009-07-30 14:40:28
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