Visual Shock by Michael Kammen

Author:Michael Kammen [Kammen, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54877-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2006-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

To notice the variability by venue of which kinds of motifs seem to work well and which do not, depending upon the “fit” between artist, architecture, site, and audience. Regionalism matters, and sometimes in surprising ways. Local journalists, moreover, have been a frequent source of uninformed and inflammatory comments.

To appreciate the role played by artistic temperaments, because they have ranged from arrogant to conciliatory, from egotistical and self-serving to sensitive and adaptive. When he was negotiating with City of Miami officials in 1980, Isamu Noguchi told them that an artist had to be a “dictator.” He refused to discuss his designs with the people of the city. The most successful projects have so often required compromise. As Luis Jiminez astutely remarked in the later 1970s, “I don't want to sound like a commercial artist, but [making art] is entirely different when you're working with a community. The work belongs to the people. It has to come from the artist, but the people have to be able to identify with it.”8

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