Critical Issues In Public Art: Content, Context, And Controversy. This item is unavailable.Critical Issues In Public Art: Content, Context, And Controversy

This anthology of writings is on critical issues in public art, as well as an analysis of the historical developments in public art in America. The book contains 20 essays, focusing on the history of and the important issues in public art. There is material on monuments and memorials; sculpture and architecture; urban design; patronage and public art, and public art and public response. It should be of interest to students and professionals involved in architechture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the arts public policy.

Harriet F. Senie is director of the museum studies program and a professor of art history at The City College, New York, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Contemporary Public Sculpture: Traditions, Transformation, and Controversy (1992).

Sally Webster is professor of art history at Lehman College, The Bronx, and at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of William Morris Hunt (1991).