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Whose Art Is It? (Public Planet Books)
Kramer
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Description for Whose Art Is It? (Public Planet Books)
Paperback. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 144 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by their own definitions, "different?" Ahearn’s subjects were "not the best of the neighborhood." They were a junkie, a hustler, and a street kid. Their images sparked ... Read more
Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by their own definitions, "different?" Ahearn’s subjects were "not the best of the neighborhood." They were a junkie, a hustler, and a street kid. Their images sparked ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Public Planet Books
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822315490
SKU
V9780822315490
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Ref
99-1
About Kramer
Jane Kramer’s books include Europeans, Unsettling Europe, and The Last Cowboy, which won the National Book Award in 1981. She is a writer for The New Yorker, where she contributes the acclaimed "Letter from Europe." Whose Art Is It? first appeared in The New Yorker and was awarded the National Magazine Award. Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor at ... Read more
Reviews for Whose Art Is It? (Public Planet Books)
"In Whose Art Is It? Jane Kramer provides a striking account of the debate surrounding a white artist’s controversial bronze statues of three people from a particularly rough section in the South Bronx."
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