Spirit of the City

Marshall Fredericks Sculptures in Detroit

AvJanna Jones

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Marshall Fredericks’s Detroit sculptures capture the spirit of the Motor City and its dramatic transformation from the 1950s to the present day. In this book, Janna Jones analyzes eight of these enormous works of public art, situating them and their structures in metro Detroit’s distinctive midcentury milieu and bringing much-needed critical attention to this sculptor’s oeuvre. Sadly, some of these artworks have suffered along with the city as it shrank from its postwar zenith. Both the buildings and the sculptures erected for them deserve to be rescued from neglect, and then maintained and preserved for the future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Michigan State University Press
ISBN:9781611864540

Utforska kategorier

Skulptur inom Kultur
Konstteori inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Janna Jones is professor of creative media and film in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of the books The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall, and Resurrection and The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film. She has published dozens of journal articles and book chapters, which include articles in the Journal of Curatorial Studies, Liminalities, The Moving Image, and the Michigan Historical Review.

Recensioner i media

This highly readable urban, cultural, and visual history enacts “discursive preservation” to track the rise and fall of midcentury Detroit through Marshall Fredericks’s monumental sculptures. Deftly combining storytelling, archival research, and advocacy, Janna Jones makes a compelling case for the public artscape of one of the U.S. Midwest’s great cities as communal memory.—Jennifer L. Jenkins, professor and research social scientist, Southwest Center, University of Arizona

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Levi L. Barbour Memorial Fountain (1937) Chapter 2. Victory Eagle (1950) Chapter 3. The Romance of Transportation (1951) Chapter 4. The Making of Automobiles (1953) Chapter 5. The Boy and Bear (1954) Chapter 6. The Ford Empire (1956) Chapter 7. The Spirit of Detroit (1958) Chapter 8. Freedom of the Human Spirit (1964, 1986) Notes Bibliography Index