The public as sculpture : from heavenly city to mass ornament

Author

North, Michael

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Critical inquiry. 1990, Num. 4, Vol. 16, 860-879, 6 ill.

ISSN

0093-1896

Abstract (en)

Includes discussions of works by Joseph Beuys, and installations by Vito Acconci, Siah Armajani, Lauren Ewing, and others shown in the exhibition "Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors", 17 Dec 1981-28 Feb 1982, at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, as well as a comparision of two works: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin and a project, Und ihr habt doch gesiegt, realized in the town of Graz, Austria, by Hans Haacke, Oct-Nov 1988.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Sculpture
• 1900-2000
• Installation works
• Public art
• Beuys, Joseph, 1921-1986
• Armajani, Siah, b.1939
• Ewing, Lauren, b.1946
• Lin, Maya Ying, b.1959
• Haacke, Hans Christoph, b.1936

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Sculpture
• 1900-2000
• Installation (oeuvre d'art)
• Art public
• Beuys, Joseph, 1921-1986
• Armajani, Siah, n.1939
• Ewing, Lauren, n.1946
• Lin, Maya Ying, n.1959
• Haacke, Hans Christoph, n.1936

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920101-00419596

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