Critical Issues in Public Art Content, Context, and Controversy

Name: Critical Issues in Public Art Content, Context, and Controversy
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ISBN: 9781560987697

ISBN-10: 1560987693

ISBN-13: 9781560987697

Edition: 1998

Authors: Harriet Senie, Sally Webster

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 10/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Brooke Kamin Rapaportis a curator and writer.Arthur C. Dantois Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.Gabriel de Guzmanis Curatorial Program Coordinator at The Jewish Museum.Harriet F. Senieis professor of art history at the City College of the City University of New York.Michael Stanislawskiis Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Defining National Values: American Monuments, Murals, and Memorials



The Self-made Monument: George Washington and the Fight to Erect a National Memorial




Writing History/Painting History: Early Chronicles of the United States and Pictures for the Capitol Rotunda




Selections from "Rushmore - Another Look" (with an afterword)




Holocaust Memorials in America: Public Art as Process




The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography




Politics, Patronage, and Public Art



Political Compromise in Public Art: Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom




The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC: A War Memorial for the New Century




New Deal for Public Art




Camelot's Legacy to Public Art: Aesthetic Ideology in the New Frontier




Public Art and Its Uses




Public Art and Public Response



The Rise and Demise of Civic Virtue




From Scapegoats to Mascots: The New York Public Library Lions




George Segal's Sculpture on a Theme of Gay Liberation and the Sexual-Political Equivocation of Public Consciousness




Representing the Race: Detroit's Monument to Joe Louis




The "Rocky" Dilemma: Museums, Monuments, and Popular Culture in the Postmodern Era




Baboons, Pet Rocks, and Bomb Threats: Public Art and Public Perception




New Directions in Public Art



Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture




An American Sense of Place (with an afterword)




The MacArthur Park Experiment, 1984-1987




Public Art That Inspires: Public Art That Informs




Is the NAMES Quilt Art?




Temporality and Public Art



Notes on Contributors


Index