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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mark BrownNorth of England correspondent

RARE PHOTOS: Lake district slag heap could become landmark public art - The Real Truth

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Roger Hiorns’ and Tom Emerson’s proposed site at Millom on the west Cumbrian coast Photograph: Adamedia.

A century ago, Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal to a New York exhibition and revolutionised art. If a urinal can be art, then why not a post-industrial slag heap?

The artist Roger Hiorns is channelling the spirit of Duchamp in his proposal for a landmark piece of public art in west Cumbria, on the Lake District coast of north-west England.

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