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Dancing in the landscape : the sculpture of Athena Tacha / essay by Harriet F. Senie ; interview by Glenn Harper ; edited by James Grayson Trulove.
LIBRA N6537.T24 A4 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tacha, Athena, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tacha, Athena, 1936-.
- Tacha, Athena.
- Sculpture, American.
- Sculpture, American--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Ariel ; London : Hi Marketing, [2000]
- Summary:
- Dancing in the Landscape: The Sculpture of Athena Tacha is the most comprehensive presentation of Athena Tacha's outdoor public art of the past 25 years. One of the initiators of "site-specific" architectural sculpture -- a significant shift in attitude that brought "land art" into a social context -- Tacha has been a finalist in more than 135 national and international competitions. Of the 42 commissions she won, 30 have been executed throughout the United States, from New York to Arizona, Florida to Alaska, including an entire city-block park in downtown Philadelphia.
- Trained in Greece, France and America as both an artist and art historian, Tacha has always written articulate texts for her proposals and most of these texts are published in this book for the first time. Her executed commissions are presented in large illustrations together with smaller reproductions of 58 models for upbuilt projects, each with an explanatory statement.
- Through her candid documentation of successes and failures in working with public commissions, Tacha offers her wide experience with hundreds of competitions. As a result, artists, landscape architects, historians, critics and collectors with an interest in the history of public art will find Dancing in the Landscape an invaluable reference.
- Contents:
- Glimpses of Infinity: Nature and Science in Athena Tacha's Public Art / Harriet F. Senie 8
- Athena's Other Selves: Interview with Athena Tacha / Glenn Harper 14
- Waterfronts
- Charles River Step Sculpture 26
- Streams (Oberlin, OH) 29
- Battery Park City Plaza 32
- Edgewater Paths 35
- Swan Waves (Toledo, OH) 36
- Wavefront 38
- Parks, Gardens and Plazas
- Connections (Philadelphia, PA) 40
- Tide Park (Smithtown, L.I., NY) 44
- Sawyer Point Recreation Park 46
- 33 Rhythms 50
- Ripples (Norfolk, VA) 52
- Raindrop Plaza Land Marks 55
- Green Acres (Trenton, NJ) 56
- Santa Monica Islands Columbus' Garden Secret Gardens 60
- Steps and Walkways
- Memory Path (Sarasota, FL) 62
- Rhythmics (St. Paul, MN) 66
- Pearl Alley Cosmic Energy 69
- Rhythmic Games Peaks 70
- Peak Outlook 71
- Four Histories: ODOT/ ODPS 72
- Human Resources Plaza 74
- Waterfalls and Fountains
- Blair Fountain (Tulsa, OK) 76
- Ohio Canal Revisited 81
- Merging (Cleveland, OH) 82
- Austin Waterfalls 86
- Sacramento Water Stairs 87
- Wave Fall (Newington/ Hartford, CT) 88
- Waterlinks (Madison, WI) 90
- Rose Fountain Plaza (Berea, OH) 92
- Mazes
- Marianthe (Fort Myers, FL) 94
- Double Star: Antares (Cincinnati, OH) 100
- Ice Walls (Anchorage, AK) 104
- Eddies/ Interchanges Leonardo 108
- Corral (Lincoln, NE) 109
- Birmingham Views Hedge Mazes 112
- Arcades and Colonnades
- Curving Arcades (Tucson, AZ) 114
- Tension Arches (Cleveland, OH) 117
- Double Tension Arches (Dublin/ Columbus, OH) 117
- Perspective Arcade (Toledo, OH) 117
- Leaning Arches (Miami, FL) 117
- Crossings (Columbus, OH) 122
- Link (Omaha, NE) 124
- Transit (Newington/ Hartford, CT) 126
- Encounters Double Gateway 128
- Spiraling Gateway 129
- Triple Link Friendship Heights 130
- Slab Twists
- Twist (Cleveland, OH) 132
- Descant 133
- Double Scales (Coatesville, PA) 134
- Chloe (Findlay, OH) 136
- Walter Griffin Memorial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, for Washington Jewish Holocaust Memorial, for Boston 138
- Jewish Holocaust Memorial Jewish Holocaust Memorial, for Tucson Kent State University Students' Memorial 139
- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Memorial India/ Pakistan Memorial Vietnam/ Laos/ Cambodia Memorial 140
- Central America Memorial Emerging: Memorial to Women Native Americans' Memorial 141
- Homage to the Great Zimbabwe L.A. Memorial Walkway Terrorist Bomb Memorial 141
- Books of Life Fishwall 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).
- ISBN:
- 0967914310
- OCLC:
- 45326703
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