Title & Author:

Critical issues in public art : content, context, and controversy / edited by Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1998.

Description:

xvii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : IconEditions, 1992. With rev. introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The self-made monument : George Washington and the fight to erect a national memorial / Kirk Savage -- Writing history/painting history : early chronicles of the United States and pictures for the Capitol Rotunda / Sally Webster -- Selections from "Rushmore, another look" (with an afterword) / Jim Pomeroy -- Holocaust memorials in America : public art as process / James E. Young -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall : philosophical thoughts on political iconography / Charles L. Griswold -- Political compromise in public art : Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom / Vivien Green Fryd -- The Ulysses S. Grant memorial in Washington, DC : a war memorial for the new century / Dennis R. Montagna -- New Deal for public art / Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz -- Camelot's legacy to public art : aesthetic ideology in the New Frontier / John Wetenhall -- Public art and its uses / Rosalyn Deutsche -- The rise and demise of Civic Virtue / Michele H. Bogart -- From scapegoats to mascots : the New York Public Library Lions / Susan Larkin -- George Segal's sculpture on a theme of gay liberation and the sexual-political equivocation of public consciousness / Joseph Disponzio -- Representing the race : Detroit's Monument to Joe Louis / Donna Graves -- The "Rocky" dilemma : museums, monuments, and popular culture in the postmodern era / Danielle Rice -- Baboons, pet rocks, and bomb threats : public art and public perception / Harriet F. Senie -- Earthworks : land reclamation as sculpture / Robert Morris -- An American sense of place (with an afterword) / Dolores Hayden -- The MacArthur Park experiment, 1984-1987 / Steven Bingler -- Public art that inspires : public art that informs / Seitu Jones -- Is the NAMES quilt art? / E.G. Crichton -- Temporality and public art / Patricia C. Phillips.
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Summary:

In this anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analyzing the context in which it is commissioned, built, and received. They emphasize the historical continuum between traditional works such as Mount Rushmore, the Washington Monument, and the New York Public Library lions, in addition to contemporary memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt. They discuss the influence of patronage on form and content, isolate the factors that precipitate controversy, and show how public art overtly and covertly conveys civic values and national culture.

ISBN:

1560987693 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781560987697 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public art United States.
Public art.
Kunstvoorwerpen.
Openbare ruimte.
Nationale identiteit.
United States.

Added entries:

Senie, Harriet.
Webster, Sally.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206303
Call No.: N8835 . C75 1998
Status: Available