{"id":2760,"date":"2008-12-09T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:45:06","slug":"mao-jacket-on-bates-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/12\/09\/mao-jacket-on-bates-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mao Jacket\u2019 on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Campus\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View of the sculpture looking down Alumni Walk<\/p><\/div>\n

From Paul: <\/em>Hey all. Taking a quick break from finals studying to let you know about some very cool art here at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. \u00a0The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art and its director Mark Bessire, spearheaded a project to bring an amazing sculpture here to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. The \u2018Lagacy Mantle (Mao Jacket)\u2019, created by world-renown Chinese artist Sui Jianguo was brought here early this month and is on loan to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for a year. The sculpture is truly incredible. It is made of metal, stands 10 feet high and weighs roughly 4 tons. Bessire, the man who helped bring the statue to campus, said that having the sculpture here is an, \u201cextraordinary opportunity for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ to have one of the iconic symbols of Chinese contemporary art by one of the most influential artists in the world today\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n


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When I first saw the Mao Jacket I had no idea what to think. I snapped some pictures so you can decide for yourself. Also, check out this article from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ website<\/a>. It is much more in depth and has some AWESOME pictures of moving the huge sculpture (from a flatbed truck, through the air between Pettengill and Lane Hall, into its resting spot along Alumni Walk).
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The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art and its director Mark Bessire, spearheaded a project to bring an amazing sculpture here to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. The \u2018Legacy Mantle (Mao Jacket),\u2019 created by world-renown Chinese artist Sui Jianguo was brought here early this month and is on loan to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ for a year. The sculpture is truly incredible. It is made of metal, stands 10 feet high and weighs roughly 4 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,130,133],"tags":[2885,10774,5599,6135,7795],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-creativity","tag-art-and-visual-culture","tag-asia","tag-mao-jacket","tag-music-tag","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62498,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/62498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}