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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.44,Issue6,P.1227-1257

语言

英文

关键字

public art; Washington Heights; Inwood; Neighborhood Environmental Sculpture Program

作者单位

[Wasserman, Andrew] Louisiana Tech Univ, Art & Architecture Hist, Ruston, LA 71270 USA. Wasserman, A (reprint author), 131 Devonshire Rd, Larchmont, NY 10538 USA. E-Mail: wasserman.andrew@gmail.com

摘要

The Neighborhood Environmental Sculpture Program (NESP) oversaw the installation of five monumental public sculptures between 1972 and 1974 in the Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood. Sponsored by New York City's Public Arts Council, the NESP joined recent experiments in neighborhood self-determination with a new approach to contemporary public sculpture. However, interagency disputes, budgetary restrictions, and compromised community involvement threatened to derail the NESP entirely. The NESP serves instructive to thinking about the values governing contemporary public sculpture when territoryon the ground, in institutional halls of power, and across disciplinesis contested.