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Names: Knight, Cher Krause, editor. | Senie, Harriet F., editor.
Title: A companion to public art / Edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie.
Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015042771 | ISBN 9781118475324 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118475348 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118475355 (Adobe PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Public art.
Classification: LCC N8825 .C64 2016 | DDC 711/.57–dc23
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Cover image: Tatzu Nishi, Discovering Columbus. Presented by Public Art Fund in Columbus Circle, New York City, September 20 – December 2, 2012.
Photo by Tom Powel Imaging, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
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I.1–I.3 | Wodiczko + Bonder. Mémorial de l'Abolition de l’Esclavage (Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery). 2012. Nantes, France.27–28 |
I.4 | Alan Sonfist. Time Landscape. 1965–present. LaGuardia and Houston Streets, New York City.35 |
2.1 | Memorial del Detenido Desaparecido y del Ejecutado Político. 1994. Santiago General Cemetery, Santiago, Chile.57 |
2.2 | Mosaic dedicated to Benjamín Adolfo Camus Silva. Memorial de Paine. 2008. Paine, Chile.67 |
3.1 | Robert Reid. Detail of The Five Senses. 1898. Ceiling mural, second floor, north corridor, Library of Congress.79 |
3.2 | Thomas Hart Benton. America Today, panel b) titled “City Activities with Dance Hall.” 1930–1931.82 |
4.1 | (l) M. Sidibe, architect. Independence Monument. 1995. Bamako, Mali. (r) M. Soumare, architect, mural design by Ishmael Diabate. Monument to the Martyrs. 1996. Bamako, Mali.97 |
4.2 | SOCOMADE (La société Coreo‐malienne de décoration). Les Fresques Murales de Koulouba (The Fresco Wall at Koulouba). 2000. Bamako, Mali.99 |
4.3 | (l) SOCOMADE (La société Coreo‐malienne de décoration). Sogolon Kondé. 2000. Bamako, Mali. (r) COVEC (China Overseas Engineering Group, Ltd.). La Tour d’Afrique. 2000. Bamako, Mali.103 |
II.1 | eteam. Artificial Traffic Jam. 2004. Nevada.132 |
II.2 | eteam. 100 m behind the future. 2012.133 |
6.1 | (l) Johannes Gelert. Haymarket [Police] Monument. 1889. Chicago.(r) Frederick Hibbard. Carter Henry Harrison. 1907. Chicago.144 |
6.2 | Mary Brogger. Haymarket Memorial. 2004. Chicago.150 |
6.3 | (l) Susan Clinard. Samuel Gompers. 2007. Chicago.(r) Tom White. James Connolly. 2008. Chicago.153 |
7.1 | Maria Kozic. Maria Kozic Is Bitch. 1990. Sydney.168 |
7.2 | Deborah Kelly. Big Butch Billboard. 2009. Sydney, various locations.169 |
7.3 | Reko Rennie. Always Was, Always Will Be. 2012. Taylor Square, Sydney.172 |
9.1 | Michael Asher. Untitled. 1991. Stuart Collection. UC San Diego, La Jolla, California.192 |
9.2 | Manuelita Brown. Triton. 2008. UC San Diego, La Jolla, California.193 |
9.3 | Louis Kahn. Gildred Court. 1963. Salk Institute, La Jolla, California. 196 |
9.4 | Roberts Engineering Hall. 2008. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.197 |
10.1 | Rafael Lozano‐Hemmer. Voice Tunnel. 2013. Park Avenue Tunnel, DOT Summer Streets, New York City.216 |
10.2 | Tamiko Thiel. Shades of Absence. 2011.219 |
15.1 | Groundswell. Intersections Humanized. 1550 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.317 |
15.2 | Asha Ganpat. Live! From the 2012 FIGMENT Summer‐Long Sculpture Garden on Governors Island, New York City.322 |
IV.1 | John Craig Freeman. Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands. 2013. Speaker’s Square, Singapore.348 |
IV.2 | John Craig Freeman. Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos. 2013. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Lukeville, Arizona.351 |
IV.3 | Tatzu Nishi. Engel. 2002. Basel, Switzerland.354 |
IV.4 | Tatzu Nishi. Discovering Columbus. 2012. New York City.356 |
IV.5 | Tatzu Nishi. The Merlion Hotel. 2011. Marina Bay, Singapore.357 |
17.1 | Paul Druecke. Poor Farm. 2012.377 |
18.1 | Lyman Kipp. Boss Linco. 1967. Central Park Mall, New York City. “Sculpture in Environment” exhibition, 1967.389 |
18.2 | Richard Hunt. Harlem Hybrid. 1976. Roosevelt Triangle, New York City.392 |
18.3 | Jorge Luis Rodríguez. Growth. c. 1985. Harlem Art Park, East 120th Street and Sylvan Place, New York City.396 |
21.1 | GALA Committee. RU486 Quilt. c. 1996.443 |
21.2 | GALA Committee. Rodney King. c. 1996.444 |