Critical issues in public art : content, context, and controversy / edited by Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster.

Originally published: New York : IconEditions, 1992. With rev. introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The self-made monument : George Washington and the fight to erect a national memorial / Kirk Savage -- Writing history/painting history : early chronicles of the United States and pictures for the Capitol Rotunda / Sally Webster -- Selections from "Rushmore, another look" (with an afterword) / Jim Pomeroy -- Holocaust memorials in America : public art as process / James E. Young -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall : philosophical thoughts on political iconography / Charles L. Griswold -- Political compromise in public art : Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom / Vivien Green Fryd -- The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC : a war memorial for the new century / Dennis R. Montagna -- New Deal for public art / Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz -- Camelot's legacy to public art : aesthetic ideology in the New Frontier / John Wetenhall -- Public art and its uses / Rosalyn Deutsche -- The rise and demise of Civic Virtue / Michele H. Bogart -- From scapegoats to mascots : the New York Public Library lions / Susan Larkin -- George Segal's sculpture on a theme of gay liberation and the sexual-political equivocation of public consciousness / Joseph Disponzio -- Representing the race : Detroit's Monument to Joe Louis / Donna Graves -- The "Rocky" dilemma : museums, monuments, and popular culture in the postmodern era / Danielle Rice -- Baboons, pet rocks, and bomb threats : public art and public perception / Harriet F. Senie -- Earthworks : land reclamation as sculpture / Robert Morris -- An American sense of place (with an afterword) / Dolores Hayden -- The MacArthur Park experiment, 1984-1987 / Steven Bingler -- Public art that inspires : public art that informs / Seitu Jones -- Is the NAMES quilt art? / E.G. Crichton -- Temporality and public art / Patricia C. Phillips.