I've been doing as culpster advises... it's a fascinating tour.
I kicked myself when I found out about the hoax. Because during the tour, I'd been quietly thinking: why would a 1800's maid do art similar to a modern wax-sculptor? why would she include such abstract pieces in her definition of "art", when everyone else thought art depicted realistic scenes? If she was compelled to "play" with wax (not make art), she wouldn't have made some of those pieces. And furthermore, why would the anthropologists leave their office work half-complete, to allow the tours to go through?
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Date: 2009-08-13 04:00 am (UTC)I kicked myself when I found out about the hoax. Because during the tour, I'd been quietly thinking: why would a 1800's maid do art similar to a modern wax-sculptor? why would she include such abstract pieces in her definition of "art", when everyone else thought art depicted realistic scenes? If she was compelled to "play" with wax (not make art), she wouldn't have made some of those pieces. And furthermore, why would the anthropologists leave their office work half-complete, to allow the tours to go through?