Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska . Pound instructed the young sculptor to make him look “virile”, and Gaudier-Brzeska, who was just 22, interprets this rather literally, by making the head resemble, from the back, a huge phallus.  :D .                             Above: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska carving ‘Hieratic Head of Ezra   Pound’ (c.1914),              photographed by Walter Benington. Photo: Courtesy Benington Archive

Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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Pound instructed the young sculptor to make him look “virile”, and Gaudier-Brzeska, who was just 22, interprets this rather literally, by making the head resemble, from the back, a huge phallus.  :D

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             Above: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska carving ‘Hieratic Head of Ezra   Pound’ (c.1914),

             photographed by Walter Benington. Photo: Courtesy Benington Archive

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