Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy

Table of contents

• Critical Issues in Public Art *
• Critical Issues in Public Art - Content, Context, and Controversy *
• Contents v
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction xi
• Critical Issues in Public Art *
• Part I - Defining National Values 1
• 1 - The Self-Made Monument 5
• 2 - Writing History/Painting History 33
• 3 - Selections from Rushmore—another Look 44
• 4 - Holocaust Memorials in America 57
• 5 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall 71
• Part II - Politics, Patronage, and Public Art 101
• 6 - Political Compromise in Public Art 105
• 7 - The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, Dc 115
• 8 - New Deal for Public Art 128
• 9 - Camelot's Legacy to Public Art 142
• 10 - Public Art and Its Uses 158
• Part III - Public Art and Public Response 171
• 11 - The Rise and Demise of Civic Virtue 175
• 12 - From Scapegoats to Mascots 189
• 13 - George Segal's Sculpture on a Theme of Gay Liberation and the Sexual-Political Equivocation of Public Consciousness 199
• 14 - Representing the Race 215
• 15 - The "Rocky" Dilemma 228
• 16 - Baboons, Pet Rocks, and Bomb Threats 237
• Part IV - New Directions in Public Art 247
• 17 - Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture 250
• 18 - An American Sense of Place 261
• 19 - The Macarthur Park Experiment, 1984-1987 270
• 20 - Public Art That Inspires 280
• 21 - Is the Names Quilt Art? 287
• 22 - Temporality and Public Art 295
• Notes on Contributors 305
• Index 309

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