On another level though, it speaks to us absolutely directly, not as a document of a changing society but as an eloquent work of art. Sculptor Marc Quinn again.

从另一层面而言，它的身份可以不是一件记录转变中社会的文件，而是一件杰出的艺术作品，与我们直接沟通。

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Among some controversial choices was a sculpture of Christ, the current Marc Quinn piece of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs and a brief unauthorised appearance of a waxwork of David Beckham.

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But few works, since Francis Picabia's depiction of Marie Laurencin as an imaginary machine, challenge convention as much as the portrait of Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.

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The plinth, designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1841, remained empty until 1998 when it became the home for contemporary sculptures, including Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant in 2005 and Anthony Gormley's One and Other in 2009.

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