ARTE 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: General Services Administration, Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
12 May 2016
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Stored in brooklyn once brought down pending relocation. Artist was asked by the general services administration to build an urban sculpture for permanent installation. Grace glueck: the ugliest outdoor work of art in the city . Be responsible for the plaza"s accumulation of graffiti, waste and litter. Have obscene content of graffiti scrawled on its surface. Could serve as a blast wall for terrorists. The tilted arc would become a exactly what it was intended not to be: a mobile, marketable product. Diamond: titled arc was a mistake which had been made because at the time the impact of the piece was not understood . The piece of art was about to be sold to stern, until he heard that it was opposed to relocation. Diamond wanted the tilted arc to be relocated, or put down he was at the head of the panel and got to hose the other 4 remaining panelists (his own staff members).
