Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00JI48XY4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 531 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this groundbreaking 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 f
All speak to some aspect of the patronage, production, iconography, or meaning of public art, and some question the very nature and definition of public art itself. “The articles cover a broad range of topics from diverse perspectives. Thus these inquiries begin to define a new field of American material culture studies.”—Winterthur Portfolio
Review of Critical Issues in Public Art Robert Madden The contemporary views of public art and its role in society today are varied and not at all agreed upon on all points. The various hot button topics that help describe what public art is, what it has done, what it is supposed to do, how it succeeded and how it failed, are all subjects in this anthology.
Senie is director of the museum studies program and a professor of art history at The City College, New York, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Harriet F. . She is the author of William Morris Hunt (1991). She is the author of Contemporary Public Sculpture: Traditions, Transformation, and Controversy (1992).Sally Webster is professor of art history at Lehman College, The Bronx, and at the Graduate