Full Description
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 Parks surveys 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.
Contents
Foreword by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer
Art, Nature, People: The Sculpture Park Experience by Deborah N. Lehane
Sculpture Parks as Outdoor Museums by Brooke Barrie
Planning the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art by Daniel P. Gottlieb
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden by Sarah Tanguy
Making the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: A Conversation with Martin Friedman by Carol Sterling
A Garden for Latin American Sculpture by Collette Chattopadhyay
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park: Staying on the Edge by Marty Carlock
Creating a Sculpture Garden in New Orleans: A Conversation with Sydney Besthoff by Robert Preece
Olympic Sculpture Park: Icons and Monuments by Matthew Kangas
Designing Sculpture Parks: The Full-Body Experience by Barbara Swift
Three Ideas of the Sculpture Garden: The Israel Museum, The Fields, and Grounds for Sculpture by Margaret Sheffield
Made For Each Other: Storm King's Vistas and Sculpture by Jan Garden Castro
Middelheim Open Air Museum of Sculpture: A Conversation with Menno Meewis by Robert Preece
Hakone Open-Air Museum: Sculpture in the Mountains of Japan by Ken Scarlett
Yorkshire Sculpture Park at 30 by Oliver Lowenstein
The Kroller-Muller Sculpture Park by Ken Scarlett
Laumeier Sculpture Park by Jan Garden Castro
Emerging Art at The Fields by Jan Garden Castro
Grounds For Sculpture: Present and Past by Patricia Summers
Australia's McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park by Ken Scarlett
The Sculpture Park at Goodwood by John K. Grande
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park by Gerry Craig
Into the Woods: The Carell Sculpture Trail by Susan W. Knowles
The Ephemeral Sculpture Garden by John K. Grande
TICKON and Sculpture in Nature's Eyes: A Conversation with Alfio Bonanno by John K. Grande
The Tree Museum, Canada by Gil McElroy
The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail by John K. Grande
Sculpture in Woodland by Robert Preece
Wave Hill: Sculpture in the Garden by Jonathan Goodman
The Garden-Book: Environmental Art at La Marrana by Andrea Bellini
The Wanas Foundation: Patronage and Partnership by Gregory Volk
Site-Specific Sculpture at Fattoria di Celle by Paula Bortolotti
Collecting Experience: A Conversation with Steven Oliver by Donna Brookman
Sculpture in the Pines: The NMAC Foundation: by Cécile Bourne
The World Sculpture Park at Changchun by Ken Scarlett
The Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale by Allison Hunter
The Cullen Sculpture Garden: A Conversation with Isamu Noguchi by Tsipi Ben-Haim
Hic Terminus Haeret: Daniel Spoerri's Garden by John O'Brien
Little Sparta: Ian Hamilton Finlay's Garden by Anne Barclay Morgan
Robert Irwin's Central Garden at the Getty by Collette Chattopadhyay
Nek Chand's Rock Garden by Minhazz Majumdar
Alternative Outdoor Spaces: Socrates Sculpture Park as a Case Study by Alyson Baker
Europos Parkas by Joyce Ellen Weinstein
Franconia Sculpture Park by Ann Klefstad
Salem Art Works by Jacqueline Keren
Toronto Sculpture Garden by Gil McElroy
Finland's Pirkkala Sculpture Park by Allison Hunter
Buffalo Bayou ArtPark and Community by Kevin Jeffries
