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Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments

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Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments
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In a moment of reckoning and reimagining for monuments, why do millions of people from around the world visit the Rocky statue by the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art?Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments traces more than two millennia of artists’ engagement with boxing and celebrity. Ancient sculptures, nineteenth-century European works, and images from the golden age of boxing in the United States, together with contemporary art, reveal how fighters have bee

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