This listing is for the following book - If you have any questions please let me know. 

Book Title - Public Art, Public Controversy : The Tilted Arc on trial

Book Author - edited by Sherrill Jordan, Lisa Parr, Robert Porter and Gwen Storey // some photographs by Susan Swider, Grant Taylor and Karen Severns

Book Publisher / Year - ACA Books - New York, N.Y. : American Council for the Arts - 1987 198 pages

Book Condition - Good plus to VG minus book - crease to center can be seen on cover and lower center of interior for first half of book. Book has areas of underlining and notes but not overly so or severe. This is a solid and overall clean reading or reference copy. 

Book Content - Several perspectives of the ongoing debate at the time of whether or not to dismantle the Richard Serra artwork titled Tilted Arc. I believe there are two versions of this book with this one being the edition that was printed while Serras work was still in existence - I may be wrong but I thought it worth mentioning.

Tilted Arc was a public art installation by Richard Serra, displayed in Foley Federal Plaza in Manhattan from 1981 to 1989. The art work consisted of a 120-foot-long, 12-foot-high solid, unfinished plate of rust-covered COR-TEN steel. Advocates characterized it as an important work by a well-known artist that transformed the space and advanced the concept of sculpture, whereas critics focused on its perceived ugliness and saw it as ruining the site. Following an acrimonious public debate, the sculpture was removed in 1989 as the result of a federal lawsuit and has never been publicly displayed since, in accordance with the artist's wishes.

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