{"id":1271,"date":"2009-02-13T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:26:21","slug":"a363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"#a363 :: Bronze and stone sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1272\" title=\"021309\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021309-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"021309\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021309-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021309-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/021309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s rare that an object straddles the razor-fine line between art and camp, between craft and kitsch.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here is a little man of bronze, made to recline in the cup of a water-pocked stone.<\/p>\n<p>His blobby countenance, his <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=alberto%20giacometti&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi\">Giacomettian<\/a> proportions keep him from being a thing of manufactured cuteness and maybe lend him a bit of gravitas. Or, he could be just a quaint paperweight. I can&#8217;t decide.<\/p>\n<p>This is something my <a href=\"http:\/\/josephreed.net\">father<\/a> lent to the cause by way of his <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?cat=38\">collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare that an object straddles the razor-fine line between art and camp, between craft and kitsch. Yet here is a little man of bronze, made to recline in the cup of a water-pocked stone. His blobby countenance, his Giacomettian proportions keep him from being a thing of manufactured cuteness and maybe lend him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-facsimile","category-my-fathers-hlos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}