And if they look ultra-realistic, then it would be absurd not to recognize their rights.
Duane Hanson's sculpture. Yes, they're sculptures. What he'd said is that you can walk up to them, and stare at a person without the usual impropriety of doing so, and thus examine the details of a human when normally, you'd feel pressure to look away.
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He didn't see himself as an artist, really, but as a social documenter.