Keith Newstead: Dictator
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The "Dictator" torments his people and sheds crocodile tears.
Obviously Newstead has been inspired for his sculpture by a text of the american writer W. H. Auden "Epitaph on a Tyrant". The text is written on a plate in front of the sculpture:
"Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, and the poetry he invented was easy to unterstand; he knew human folly like the back of his hand and was greatly interested in armies and fleets; when he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, and when he cried the little children died in the streets".