A copy of Robert Indiana's famous Love statue sits in the midde of Penn's campus. Indiana made "sculptural poems," consisting of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like "EAT", "HUG", and "LOVE". Despite his early success at the center of the art world, Indiana retreated to rural obscurity in later life.His best known image is the word "LOVE" in a square with a tilted "O". This image, first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964, was included on an 8 cent United States Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps." A sculpture version is on display in so called LOVE Park in Philadelphia.
Infamously, Indiana failed to register a copyright for the work, and found it difficult to deter unauthorized commercial use. The image has been reproduced in countless times in varying forms, including sculptures, posters, and 3-D desk ornaments. It has been translated into Hebrew, Chinese, and Spanish. It was parodied on the Rage Against the Machine album cover for Renegades. Hence...
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