Kardon, Janet
Street wise/street foolish
Urban Encounters ; Catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Penn. , March '80, p8-14
1980
No satisfactory definition of p.a. but Land Art in remote areas is certainly not p.a.; contây movement begun in the USA with Chicagoâs Picasso conceived Î65, installed Î67; WPA "nobody asked for the works and no rationale beyond the self-defined needs of the artist"; now the works are based on more sharply focussed needs; 100 works included in the Cat. 21 works of special significance to offer guidelines for the future; lack of attention given to how a work enters a community; observation on how we perceive and accommodate our surroundings good or bad; competition between artists and architects; how modernist tradition has not provided us with much latitude for p.a.
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