Acknowledgments

Introduction

Harriet F. Senie

Sally Webster

Part I. Defining National Values: American Monuments, Murals, and Memorials

KIRK SAVAGE

1. The Self-made Monument: George Washington and the Fight to Erect a National Memorial

SALLY WEBSTER

2. Writing History/Painting History: Early Chronicles of the United States and Pictures for the Capitol Rotunda

JIM POMEROY

3. Selections from "Rushmore-Another Look" (with an afterword)

JAMES E. YOUNG

4. Holocaust Memorials in America: Public Art as Process

CHARLES L. GRISWOLD

5. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography

Part II. Politics, Patronage, and Public Art

VIVIEN GREEN FRYD

6. Political Compromise in Public Art: Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom

DENNIS R. MONTAGNA

7. The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC: A War Memorial for the New Century

MARLENE PARK

GERALD E. MARKOWITZ

8. New Deal for Public Art

JOHN WETENHALL

9. Camelot's Legacy to Public Art: Aesthetic Ideology in the New Frontier

ROSALYN DEUTSCHE

10. Public Art and Its Uses

Part III. Public Art and Public Response

MICHELE H. BOGART

11. The Rise and Demise of Civic Virtue

SUSAN LARKIN

12. From Scapegoats to Mascots: The New York Public Library Lions

JOSEPH DISPONZIO

13. George Segal's Sculpture on a Theme of Gay Liberation and the Sexual-Political Equivocation of Public Consciousness

DONNA GRAVES

14. Representing the Race: Detroit's Monument to Joe Louis

DANIELLE RICE

15. The "Rocky" Dilemma: Museums, Monuments, and Popular Culture in the Postmodern Era

HARRIET F. SENIE

16. Baboons, Pet Rocks, and Bomb Threats: Public Art and Public Perception

Part IV. New Directions in Public Art

ROBERT MORRIS

17. Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture

DOLORES HAYDEN

18. An American Sense of Place (with an afterword)

STEVEN BINGLER

19. The MacArthur Park Experiment, 1984-1987

SEITU JONES

20. Public Art That Inspires: Public Art That Informs

E.G. CRICHTON

21. Is the NAMES Quilt Art?

PATRICIA C. PHILLIPS

22. Temporality and Public Art

Notes on Contributors

Index