Title & Author:

Socrates Sculpture Park / Alyson Baker and Ivana Mestrovic, editors ; Robyn Donohue, photography editor ; essays by Thomas Hanrahan, Jeffrey Kastner, Irving Sandler ; contributions by Alyson Baker [and others].

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Inner-vision / Mark di Suvero -- Introduction / Alyson Baker and Stuart Match Suna -- Urban space as work of art / Thomas Hanrahan -- Let's go! / John Morse -- Art for the people : the first decade of Socrates Sculpture Park / Irving Sandler -- A mirage upriver / Eve Sussman -- 'Round art / Kate D. Levin -- The Socrates years / Kathleen Gilrain -- Being there / Jeffrey Kastner -- The landscape that could / Diana Balmori -- Open studio / Alyson Baker -- Vanishing points / Sara Reisman -- What if-- / Ivana Mestrovic -- Exhibition history -- List of artists.
Also with essays by Jeffrey Kastner, Irving Sandler, Eve Sussman, Mark di Suvero and others.

Summary:

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. This book presents the history, spirit, and nature of this collaborative enterprise through photographs and essays that reveal the beauty, energy, and import of this successful public art space.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300120981 (hbk.)
0300120982 (hbk.)

Subject:

Di Suvero, Mark, 1933-
Socrates Sculpture Park.
Socrates Sculpture Park (N.Y.)
Sculpture parks New York (State) New York.
Parcs de sculptures New York (État) New York.
Sculpture parks
Sculpture en plein air New York (N.Y.)
New York (State) New York

Added entries:

Baker, Alyson, editor, writer of introduction.
Mestrovic, Ivana, editor.
Donohue, Robyn, photography editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247740
Call No.: BIB 177281
Status: Available