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Suicidal Sculptors: Scottish Versions of a Migratory Legend (IN: Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Volume II, edited by G Bennett, P Smith, & J D A Widdowson)
McCulloch G
This chapter examines the legend of the suicide of the architect of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. Legend has it the man took his own life in depair when he discovered his building had been constructed back-to-front. Similar stories from Scotland & other countries are also discussed. (12 notes)