Dancing in the Landscape

by Senie, Harriet F.; Trulove, James Grayson

• ISBN13: 9780967914312
• ISBN10: 0967914310
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Grayson Pub

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.

Table of Contents

Glimpses of Infinity: Nature and Science in Athena Tacha's Public Art	p. 8
Athena's Other Selves: Interview with Athena Tacha	p. 14
Biographical Chronology and Museum Collections	p. 20
Selected Bibliography	p. 22
Waterfronts
Charles River Step Sculpture	p. 26
Streams (Oberlin, OH)	p. 29
Battery Park City Plaza	p. 32
Edgewater Paths	p. 35
Swan Waves (Toledo, OH)	p. 36
Wavefront	p. 38
Parks, Gardens and Plazas
Connections (Philadelphia, PA)	p. 40
Tide Park (Smithtown, L.I., NY)	p. 44
Sawyer Point Recreation Park	p. 46
33 Rhythms	p. 50
Ripples (Norfolk, VA)	p. 52
Raindrop Plaza Land Marks	p. 55
Green Acres (Trenton, NJ)	p. 56
Santa Monica Islands Columbus' Garden Secret Gardens	p. 60
Steps and Walkways
Memory Path (Sarasota, FL)	p. 62
Rhythmics (St. Paul, MN)	p. 66
Pearl Alley Cosmic Energy	p. 69
Rhythmic Games Peaks	p. 70
Peak Outlook	p. 71
Four Histories: ODOT/ ODPS	p. 72
Human Resources Plaza	p. 74
Waterfalls and Fountains
Blair Fountain (Tulsa, OK)	p. 76
Ohio Canal Revisited	p. 81
Merging (Cleveland, OH)	p. 82
Austin Waterfalls	p. 86
Sacramento Water Stairs	p. 87
Wave Fall (Newington/ Hartford, CT)	p. 88
Waterlinks (Madison, WI)	p. 90
Rose Fountain Plaza (Berea, OH)	p. 92
Mazes
Marianthe (Fort Myers, FL)	p. 94
Double Star: Antares (Cincinnati, OH)	p. 100
Ice Walls (Anchorage, AK)	p. 104
Eddies/ Interchanges Leonardo	p. 108
Corral (Lincoln, NE)	p. 109
Birmingham Views Hedge Mazes	p. 112
Arcades and Colonnades
Curving Arcades (Tucson, AZ)	p. 114
Tension Arches (Cleveland, OH)	p. 117
Double Tension Arches (Dublin/ Columbus, OH)	p. 117
Perspective Arcade (Toledo, OH)	p. 117
Leaning Arches (Miami, FL)	p. 117
Crossings (Columbus, OH)	p. 122
Link (Omaha, NE)	p. 124
Transit (Newington/ Hartford, CT)	p. 126
Encounters Double Gateway	p. 128
Spiraling Gateway	p. 129
Triple Link Friendship Heights	p. 130
Slab Twists
Twist (Cleveland, OH)	p. 132
Descant	p. 133
Double Scales (Coatesville, PA)	p. 134
Chloe (Findlay, OH)	p. 136
Memorials
Walter Griffin Memorial Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, for Washington Jewish Holocaust Memorial, for Boston	p. 138
Jewish Holocaust Memorial Jewish Holocaust Memorial, for Tucson Kent State University Students' Memorial	p. 139
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Memorial India/ Pakistan Memorial Vietnam/ Laos/ Cambodia Memorial	p. 140
Central America Memorial Emerging: Memorial to Women Native Americans' Memorial	p. 141
Homage to the Great Zimbabwe L.A. Memorial Walkway Terrorist Bomb Memorial	p. 141
Books of Life Fishwall	p. 143
Credits	p. 144
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