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| Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Law School |
Diarchy, 1957 (installed 1978)
Kenneth Armitage
University of Chicago Law
School
Laird Bell Quadrangle
1111 East 60th
Street
Diarchy is an
example of the mature style of Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002), an English
sculptor who studied at Leeds College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art
in London. In this work, Armitage combines flat areas with extended forms that
indicate limbs, breasts and heads. His stylized human forms recall ancient
Cycladic statues as well as the highly geometrized figures produced by the
Dogon of Mali. The title Diarchy is
the term for government by two rulers and the two figures appear to be
inextricably linked by the flat screen that forms their bodies. The piece was
donated to the University’s Law School by one of its graduates, Dino J.
D’Angelo and his wife in 1978.
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