{"id":4318,"date":"2011-01-06T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2011-02-07T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:04:06","slug":"dinosaur-sculpture-looms-large-in-langsam-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/01\/dinosaur-sculpture-looms-large-in-langsam-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Sculpture Looms Large in Langsam Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4329\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/01\/06\/dinosaur-sculpture-looms-large-in-langsam-library\/tri-full-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4329\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Tri-full\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Tri-full1.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur Sculpture Looms Large in Langsam Library\" width=\"240\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>Langsam Library is the new home for <em>Triceracopter &#8211; <\/em>an impressive half triceratops, half helicopter 30-foot sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Created in 1977 by artist Patricia A. Renick to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial, <em>Triceracopter: The Hope for the Obsolescence of War<\/em> combines the form of a triceratops dinosaur with an Army OH6A Cayuse combat helicopter flown in Vietnam. Although a triceratops and a helicopter are unlikely candidates for a single sculpture, the artist has combined them to invite wonder and nudge reflective thinking.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Renick spent three years gathering the materials for the sculpture and completing the work. With help from the U.S. Army, she secured a badly damaged Vietnam-era helicopter fuselage, reconstructing most of it in fiberglass. Other helicopter parts were found and contributed by U.S. Army National Guard units in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p><em>Triceracopter<\/em> was last exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center in 1978. This one-person show included another piece of sculpture by Renick, <em>Self-Portrait: She Became What She Beheld<\/em>. This piece is a body cast of the artist sitting on a chair, dressed in work clothing and holding a small concept model of the larger work. Instead of the expected life-size human head, Patricia Renick has portrayed herself with the head of her progeny, <em>Triceracopter<\/em>. <em>Self-Portrait<\/em>, also on display in Langsam Library, is placed a short distance from the larger work, facing it as if musing about its birth and destiny, but also \u201cbecoming\u201d what she is beholding \u2013 artist as dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/information\/news\/pressrelease\/1011\/triceracopter11.html\">http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/information\/news\/pressrelease\/1011\/triceracopter11.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langsam Library is the new home for Triceracopter &#8211; an impressive half triceratops, half helicopter 30-foot sculpture. Created in 1977 by artist Patricia A. 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