Zandra Rhodes
Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London
Zandra Rhodes
by Andrew Logan
glass mosaic bust, 1989
22 7/8 in. x 10 5/8 in. (580 mm x 270 mm) overall
Purchased, 1993
Primary Collection
NPG 6221
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
Artistback to top
- Andrew Logan (1945-), Sculptor; performance artist; jewellery-maker; portraitist and painter. Artist or producer of 2 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 519
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Current affairs
96 people are crushed to death at the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield. The accident took place when Liverpool fans were all let into the stadium at once. Incoming crowds crushed people against a fence used to prevent pitch-invasions. Following the Taylor Report into the incident standing terraces and fences between fans and pitch were banned.Art and science
Following the publication of Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, the leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, announces that the book is 'blasphemous against Islam' and places a fatwah (death sentence) on Rushdie, who is forced into hiding for several years.International
The Berlin Wall is dismantled, reunifying East and West Germany and symbolising the end of the Cold War. Following a decision to allow East Berliners to cross the border with valid visas, crowds swarmed the border crossings. Guards soon gave up trying to stop them, and the physical dismantlement of the wall soon began.Approximately 2,000 Chinese demonstrators are massacred in Tiananmen Square while protesting against the government.
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