Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park
Title | Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park PDF eBook |
Author | Mimi Gardner Gates |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780932216809 |
The Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, where Alexander Calder's The Eagle soars over Puget Sound, Roxy Paine's stainless-steel Split glistens in the rain, and Richard Serra's Wake beckons visitors to walk within its towering forms, stands out as an exemplary civic project: an urban park open and free to all and a dynamic green space filled with great art. The innovative design turned a former industrial site on Elliott Bay into a remarkable place that not only celebrates the inseparable nature of art, urban infrastructure, and landscape but also captures the majestic character of the Pacific Northwest. Using the park as a model of how public-private partnerships can create innovative civic spaces, this informative and visually stunning book will bring the Olympic Sculpture Park to a broader audience beyond the greater Seattle area and will be a vital resource for museum professionals, architects, urban planners, students, and general art lovers.
Art in Seattle's Public Spaces
Title | Art in Seattle's Public Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Rupp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780295744087 |
"A Michael J. Repass Book" -- Title page.
Olympic Sculpture Park
Title | Olympic Sculpture Park PDF eBook |
Author | Weiss/Manfredi Architects |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
ISBN |
Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park Map & Guide
Title | Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park Map & Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Seattle Art Museum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
ISBN |
Public Natures
Title | Public Natures PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Weiss |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781616893774 |
Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures explores the potential to shape a new public realm. Essays, roundtable discussions, and selected projects by WEISS/MANFREDI identify new terms, conditions, and models that insist architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure, and urban territories. With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll and contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Preston Scott Cohen, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Paul Lewis, Hashim Sarkis, and Nader Tehrani, Public Natures is both monograph and projective manifesto and suggests a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature.
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Title | Einar & Jamex de la Torre PDF eBook |
Author | Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780295984681 |
The de la Torre brothers combine exquisitely ornate blown and flame-worked glass works with cheap, mass-produced knickknacks, plastic flowers, fake fur, painted coins, and other found objects. Their art is a skillful combination of disparate elements, appropriating content, meaning, and materials from both high and low cultures. This intersection of contrasting elements reflects their dual residence in Mexico and the United States. The de la Torres describe themselves as "Mexican-American bicultural artists," influenced by "the morbid humor of Mexican folk art, the absurd pageantry of Catholicism, and machismo" on the one hand, and fascinated by "the American culture of excess" on the other. These artists do not hesitate to confront preconceived notions about artistic materials, cultural identity, and political borders. Dividing their time between the studios they share in San Diego and San Antonio de las Minas, they cross the international border several times a week, which provides them with a "parallel appreciation of both cultures." Their status as both insider and outsider, neither Mexican nor American, underpins their artistic discourse. Einar and Jamex de la Torre includes an essay on the artists' work by Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and an original interview with the artists by Gronk, a Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale, site-specific murals.
Norman Lundin
Title | Norman Lundin PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Lundin |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Drawing, American |
ISBN | 9780295986784 |
At first glance, a casual observer might assume that Norman Lundin's recent paintings are about things. That would be a mistake. Instead, silence and space form a void that is shaped and manipulated by the things that displace it and defined by the light and atmosphere captured in its gravitational field. This void is the true subject of Lundin's paintings. Lundin's fascination with still life, landscape, and compositional integrity reaches its peak in a series of paintings depicting objects arranged along a shelf, in front of mullioned windows that allow glimpses of a landscape beyond. This volume includes an interview with the artist and illustrates works ranging from 1973 to 2006.