Product Description: James S. J. Novelli was born in 1885, and was raised in a tenement house on Mulberry Street in the Five Points area once nicknamed, Murderer’s Alley. Though well versed in the wisdom of the street, he grew up to be a sensitive, warm-hearted man, who managed to escape his meager lifestyle and transcend into the elite world of the fine arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Donald Martin Reynolds, Prof. of Art History at Columbia Univ., has written the authoritative guide to New York City s magnificent collection of civic art. From Grant s Tomb & the U.S. Customs House in Manhattan to the fanciful gates of the Bronx Zoo, Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza war memorial, Staten Island's Hiker monument & the American Architectural Terra-Cotta Co...read more

Product Description: Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station...read more

Product Description: Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, a 120-foot curved Cor-Ten steel structure in New York City's Federal Plaza, was destroyed in the spring of 1989 by the General Services Administration, the federal agency that had commissioned and installed what was Serra's most ambitious and probably most important public sculpture...read more