Richard Serra's Tilted arc : art and non-art issues

Author

Senie, Harriet

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art journal. 1989, Num. 4, Vol. 48, p. 298-302, 5 ill.

ISSN

0004-3249

Abstract (en)

Examines issues of politics, law, artistic intention, public education, and site specificity in relation to Serra's public sculpture Tilted Arc, commissioned in 1979 by the General Services Administration for Federal Plaza in New York City, and dismantled amid controversy in 1989. Notes that the procedures attending the removal of the sculpture were a subversion of the democratic process as well as the public art process.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Sculpture -- United States
• Serra, Richard, b.1939
• Sculpture
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Tilted Arc
• Federal Plaza||New York (NY, USA)
• Public art
• Politics
• Law
• Art education
• Society
• General Services Administration||United States
• Patronage

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Sculpture -- États-Unis
• Serra, Richard, n.1939
• Sculpture
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Tilted Arc
• Federal Plaza||New York (NY, USA)
• Art public
• Politique
• Loi
• Education artistique
• Société
• General Services Administration||United States
• Mécénat

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910401-00450875

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