A new image of Aristotle has been placed in Athens Square Park in Astoria--the New York Times reports:
The bust, sculptured by a Greek artist, George V. Tsaras, is a gift to the city from the people of Halkidiki, a peninsula in the Macedonia region of Greece (not be confused with the independent, neighboring nation of Macedonia). Since the 1980s, Athens Square Inc., a private group, has been adding ornamental statues and adding a meeting place designed to look like a Greek amphitheater. The park — which was acquired by the Board of Education in 1963 for use as a school playground and was then converted in 1990 to a neighborhood gathering place — already includes three granite Doric columns and statues of Socrates and the goddess Athena.
Adrian Benepe, the city’s parks commissioner, waxed a bit, er, philosophical as he unveiled the bust. “In the spirit of Aristotle’s words, ‘The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance,’ this sculpture is a little piece of Greece to our parks,” he said.
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