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  • Sculpture of Thoreau’s cabin looks at artifice of objects

    Oct 5, 2016 9:45 am by Jodi HeckelCampus Life
    Photo of Thoreau's cabin sculpture courtesy of Conrad Bakker

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    • Photo of Thoreau's cabin sculpture courtesy of Conrad Bakker

    “I was interested in it as a symbolic object, as a destination,” Illinois art professor Conrad Bakker said of the cabin at Walden Pond. “I’m also interested in how a fake thing can hold the place of a real thing.”