Full Description
There are nearly 500 public works of art throughout New Haven, Connecticut--a city of 17 square miles with 130,000 residents. While other historic East Coast cities--Philadelphia, Providence, Boston--have been the subjects of book-length studies on the function and meaning of public art, New Haven (founded 1638) has largely been ignored.
This comprehensive analysis provides an overview of the city's public art policy, programs and preservation, and explores its two centuries of public art installations, monuments and memorials in a range of contexts.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Curating an Image of the City
1. Chronology: Policy, Programs and Preservation
2. Public Art as City Biography: "Till New Haven should have lost its identity"
3. Public Art as "usable past": Rewriting Revolutionary New Haven
4. Public Art as Servant to Commerce: Art, Industry and Yankee Ingenuity
Between pages 114 and 115 are 16 color plates containing 26 photographs
5. Public Art as Social Engineer: Changing Fortunes for Christopher Columbus
6. Public Art as "patriotic enterprise," Protest and Peace Activism: Memorializing War and Peace
Conclusion
Appendix: Public Art by Neighborhood
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
