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Installation view of columns in the exhibition Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958–2018 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Everyone knows Robert Indiana’s most famous work – Love. Just that one word, spelled out in two tiers of red letters, against blue and green, the work is nonetheless more than just this syllable. The lovely round O – touched by the L, carried by the bracing E – swoons and leans, as if it has been knocked sideways by the force of love. It takes on a bodily form.

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Robert Indiana, Imperial LOVE, 1966-2006, installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022. Photo © Jonty Wilde, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Robert Indiana, Imperial LOVE, 1966-2006, installation view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2022. Photo: © Jonty Wilde, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Artwork: © 2022 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London