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The Great Heroes Have Always Wept Without Being Thought Unmanly, 2019
2019
Digital billboards
3 of 6 from
power and gender (men)
WITH adam nicholson
480 x 720px, 800 x 400px, 1080 x 1920px jpeg, RGB colour
January - March 2019
UK-wide
In 2009, Firrell was artist in residence with the Household Division of the British Army. His projection work
Complete Hero
surveyed the concept of heroism from antiquity to the present day with the aim of creating a comprehensive, contemporary definition of what it means to be a hero.
According to the writer and classicist Adam Nicolson,
NOTE
Adam Nicolson (born 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, literature and the sea. He is the grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson. He appeared in
Complete Hero,
contributing his knowledge about heroism and the Ancients.
all the great heroes in Homer have wept without being thought unmanly.
The Great Heroes Have Always Wept,
2009 from
Complete Hero,
The Guards' Chapel, London UK
These portrayals of masculinity from ancient Greek literature depict men as strengthened and fortified by their capacity to express feeling openly and honestly.
