Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park : a place for art, environment, and an open mind / edited by Mimi Gardner Gates and Renée Devine ; with contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Lisa Graziose Corrin, Mark Dion, Teresita Fernández, Leonard Garfield, Jerry Gorovoy for Louise Bourgeois, Michael A. Manfredi, Lynda V. Mapes, Roy McMakin, Peter Reed, Pedro Reyes, Maggie Walker, Marion Weiss.

The Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, where Alexander Calder's The Eagle soars over Puget Sound, Roxy Paine's stainless-steel Split glistens in the rain, and Richard Serra's Wake beckons visitors to walk within its towering forms, stands out as an exemplary civic project: an urban park op...

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Corporate Author: Seattle Art Museum (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Gates, Mimi Gardner, 1942- (Editor)
Devine, Renée (Editor)
Bergdoll, Barry (Contributor)
Dion, Mark, 1961- (Contributor)
Fernández, Teresita, 1968- (Contributor)
Garfield, Leonard (Contributor)
Corrin, Lisa G. (Contributor)
Gorovoy, Jerry (Contributor)
Manfredi, Michael A., 1953- (Contributor)
Mapes, Lynda, 1959- (Contributor)
McMakin, Roy, 1956- (Contributor)
Reed, Peter, 1955- (Contributor)
Reyes, Pedro (Contributor)
Walker, Maggie (Contributor)
Weiss, Marion, 1957- (Contributor)
Cruz, Amada, 1961- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Seattle, WA : Seattle Art Museum, [2021]
Subjects:
Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, Wash.)
Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, Wash.) > Design and construction.
Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle, Wash.) > History.
Sculpture parks > Washington (State) > Seattle > Design and construction.
Sculpture parks > Washington (State) > Seattle.
Outdoor sculpture > Washington (State) > Seattle.
City planning > Washington (State) > Seattle.
Seattle (Wash.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Weiss/Manfredi Architects.
Parcs de sculptures > Washington (État) > Seattle.
Sculpture en plein air > Washington (État) > Seattle.
Buildings.
City planning.
Outdoor sculpture.
Sculpture parks.
Washington (State) > Seattle.
Washington (State) > Seattle > Olympic Sculpture Park.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:191 pages (some folded) : color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Amada Cruz
  • Olympic Sculpture Park map: works of art
  • Blurring boundaries, designing dialogues; sculpture between park and landscape / Barry Bergdoll
  • The birth of the Olympic Sculpture Park: creativity, determination, and grit / Mimi Gardner Gates in association with Renée Devine
  • Design vision for the Olympic Sculpture Park / Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi in conversation with Peter Reed
  • On commissioned works for the Olympic Sculpture Park / artist interviews with Lisa Graziose Corrin in association with Renée Devine
  • Neukom Vivariu / Mark Dion
  • Seattle cloud cover / Teresita Fernández
  • Love & loss / Roy McMakin
  • Capulas XVI and XVII and Evolving city wall mural / Pedro Reyes
  • Father and son / Jerry Gorovoy on Louise Bourgeois
  • Olympic Sculpture Park map: plants and precincts
  • Resurgence: land and water, reimagined and reborn / Lynda V. Mapes
  • A community perspective: history of Seattle and vision for the future / Leonard Garfield and Maggie Walker
  • Olympic Sculpture Park: project timeline
  • Olympic Sculpture Park awards.