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 | | Holden and Epstein were united by their enthusiasm for Walt Whitmans poetry, and they agreed that 18 large figures should be carved for the buildings façade, celebrating nakedness in the spirit of Whitmans poems. |
 | | Epstein himself announced that the scheme would celebrate the great primal facts of man and woman, and he managed to fuse the medical side of the commission with his own most personal preoccupations: erotic delight, mortality, motherhood, virility and above all an uninhibited celebration of humanity in dignified nakedness. |
 | | However, the combined support of eminent artists, critics and museum directors saved the statues for the time being, although they were severely mutilated 20 years later, when the buildings disapproving new owners declared that their condition was unsafe. |
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