The result was keep. Stifle ( talk) 08:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC) reply
An essay (and not a bad one at all) that originally (and negatively) synthesizes material about the styrofoam creation of some artist. (Or of some kitschist, but I remain neutral on this issue.) The lead and list of further reading are particularly grand and impressive, but Wikipedia isn't the right place for such polemics.
This styrofoam creation seems to have long exerted a horrifying fascination over the author of this article, who has been most insistent here that its details and dreadfulness should be written up within an article on a much older photograph by somebody unrelated. (I temporarily forgot about that a short time ago when I impatiently deleted two entire paragraphs about it from that article.) The artist claims that it's based on another, much less celebrated photograph taken of the same scene, and trivia hounds as well perhaps as lawyers are most concerned about this distinction (keyword here: legs).
There's already a fair amount on this thing (or the set thereof) in the article on the artist. If this isn't sufficient, then I suppose an article could be written on this set of sculptures. However such an article shouldn't be an OS of various expressions of disgruntlement and charges of kitsch. If there's to be a controversy, let it be concocted and confected elsewhere, and then written up on Wikipedia.
(Oh, if anyone's interested: Of course I'd agree that kitsch is endemic within the art that sells for very major moolah. Robert Hughes is among the critics who have kindly provided plenty of examples for our black amusement over the years. And yes, this looks like kitsch to me. But I'm just a nobody; my opinions don't matter.)
Now, for a work of art (or of kitsch, or merely of PR flatus) that's generated a controversy that needs description rather than stoking at Wikipedia, consider " For the Love of God". The article deals with the artifact, and then goes into the brouhaha and the "controversy"; and nothing about the write-up suggests that the authors are worked up about the matter one way or another. This is the way an art (or not) controversy should be written up -- IFF there is any sizable controversy to write up in the first place. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:37, 13 July 2010 (UTC) reply