Hi sculptors-- take a look at these two websites, and come to class prepared to respond . First go to Crazy Horse. Click on the link to "Carving the Mountain"and explore the contents. Then look at Mt. Rushmore. Click on the link to "Photos & Multimedia", then "Photographs by Charles D'Emery" . View this slideshow documenting fourteen years of the carving process.
Read the following and come to class prepared to talk about your thoughts . On a notecard I will give you, write two or three comments or questions regarding these quotes:
Lame Deer, a Lakota medicine man, said, " The whole idea of making a beautiful wild mountain into a statue of him is a pollution of the landscape.
It is against the spirit of Crazy Horse."
The Lakota activist Russel Means said, "Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being."
'We're promoting all cultures of America. That's what this place is . This is Mount Rushmore. It's America. Everybody's something different here.We're all different. And just maybe that gets us talking again as human beings, as Americans."
