"Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of t...

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Main Author:	Kramer, Jane 1938- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 1994
Series:	Public planet books
Subjects:	Ahearn, John <1951-> Ahearn, John <1951-> > Criticism and interpretation Plastische kunst African Americans in art Hispanic Americans in art Public sculpture > New York (State) > New York Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Kunstsoziologie Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Ethnic relations New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations New York, NY
Summary:	"Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by their own definitions, "different?" Ahearn's subjects were "not the best of the neighborhood." They were a junkie, a hustler, and a street kid. Their images sparked a controversy throughout the community - and New York itself - over issues of white representations of people of color and the appropriateness of particular images as civic art. The sculptures, cast in bronze and painted, were up for only five days before Ahearn removed them." From the bookjacket.
Physical Description:	132 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9780822315490 0822315491