Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks

by Harper, Glenn; Moyer, Twylene

• ISBN13: 9780295988610
• ISBN10: 0295988614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Sculpture parks and gardens, whether woodland sanctuaries or urban retreats, sprawling sites or intimate oases, offer sculpture lovers and artists alike unique ways to experience the outdoors, sculpture, and the intersections between nature and culture. Since the mid-20th century, these venues have become important tourist destinations and essential aspects of public life in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle and regions such as Yorkshire in England and the Hudson Highlands in New York.Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parkssurveys a wide range of sculpture parks and gardens that focus on contemporary art - from well-established, museum-type institutions to small-scale, non-collecting, experimental programs. The book includes profiles of sculpture parks in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Latvia, Sweden, and Finland (among others). There are articles on key topics by art critics, landscape architects, and sculpture park professionals and interviews with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and Alfio Bonanno.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Art, Nature, People: The Sculpture Park Experience	p. 8
Sculpture Parks as Outdoor Museums	p. 14
Planning the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art	p. 22
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden	p. 27
Making the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: A Conversation with Martin Friedman	p. 33
A Garden for Latin American Sculpture	p. 39
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park: Staying on the Edge	p. 42
Creating a Sculpture Garden in New Orleans: A Conversation with Sydney Besthoff	p. 46
Olympic Sculpture Park: Icons and Monuments	p. 51
Designing Sculpture Parks: The Full-Body Experience	p. 55
Three Ideas of the Sculpture Garden: The Israel Museum, The Fields, and Grounds For Sculpture	p. 61
Made For Each Other: Storm King's Vistas and Sculpture	p. 68
Middelheim Open Air Museum of Sculpture: A Conversation with Menno Meewis	p. 72
Hakone Open-Air Museum: Sculpture in the Mountains of Japan	p. 75
Yorkshire Sculpture Park at 30	p. 80
The Kroller-Muller Sculpture Park	p. 85
Laumeier Sculpture Park	p. 89
Emerging Art at The Fields	p. 93
Grounds For Sculpture: Present and Past	p. 96
Australia's McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park	p. 99
The Sculpture Park at Goodwood	p. 103
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park	p. 106
Into the Woods: The Carell Woodland Sculpture Trail	p. 110
The Ephemeral Sculpture Garden	p. 114
TICKON and Sculpture in Nature's Eyes: A Conversation with Alfio Bonanno	p. 120
The Tree Museum, Canada	p. 126
The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail	p. 129
Sculpture in Woodland	p. 132
Wave Hill: Sculpture in the Garden	p. 135
The Garden-Book: Environmental Art at La Marrana	p. 139
The Wanas Foundation: Patronage and Partnership	p. 144
Site-Specific Sculpture at Fattoria di Celle	p. 149
Collecting Experience: A Conversation with Steven Oliver	p. 152
Sculpture in the Pines: The NMAC Foundation	p. 158
The World Sculpture Park at Changchun	p. 161
The Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale	p. 165
The Cullen Sculpture Garden: A Conversation with Isamu Noguchi	p. 169
Hic Terminus Haeret: Daniel Spoerri's Garden	p. 172
Little Sparta: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden	p. 176
Robert Irwin's Central Garden at the Getty	p. 180
Nek Chand's Rock Garden	p. 184
Alternative Outdoor Spaces: Socrates Sculpture Park as a Case Study	p. 190
Europos Parkas	p. 196
Franconia Sculpture Park	p. 201
Salem Art Works	p. 204
Toronto Sculpture Garden	p. 208
Finland's Pirkkala Sculpture Park	p. 212
Buffalo Bayou ArtPark and Community	p. 215
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