Talk:Sculpture of the United States

message: I posted this entry -- while realizing that it
focuses on my area of interest (20th Century
modern classical figure sculpture)
Hopefully those more interested in the 19th century --- as
well as those interested in other directions of 
modernism, cowboy art, and monster art -- will make their contributions.
Mountshang 22:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Much good work here, but you need to cite your sources. See WP:NOR. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Posting this article

message: As is often the case, I have recommendations on editing. So, I am going to disregard the Wikipedia standards and start to present them here. My first suggestion is that the article be indexed so that it can be worked on in smaller chunks. My divisions are going to be a bit arbitrary, simply taking what is here and adding some sort of title to each paragraph. I am not particularly possessive about these, but I believe that it will make editing this article easier.  Carptrash 17:54, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like your idea of the index and the divisions -- though I took the liberty of resorting to fewer artists and gallery entries. I prefer seeing larger pictures embedded in text -- rather than smaller pictures coming in a gallery at the end --- but I guess that everyone does not agree. I tried to include all of the sculptors for whom you, Carptrash, made entries. Please add any others whom I missed. There are some more pictures and divisions that I will add next weekend. Mountshang 02:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I did not think that I was doing a particularly good job of chopping the article up - but it seemed like a good starting place. I saw the discussion about picture placement and decided to keep  on the subject.  My earlier articles had the pictures spread out throughout the article but there are folks who are much more comfortable with a more defined [regulated?] layout - and anyway my usual policy is if somewone puts time and effort into an article, it's okay with me. I am about to add a bibliography section [I am a book person - but only use books in my collection] and am going to limit myself to books that are surveys, as opposed to monographs on one artist.  Does that sound right?  Also I have many more articles on sculptors than what you included, but am not sure about just dumping them all in.  There is also a Category:American sculptors list - something like that - that is a better place for that.   Carptrash 04:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  On stumbling upon this page 

message: I wonder how representative these images and names are of U.S. sculpture. I immediately notice the lack of Gutzon Borglum, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg and perhaps Dale Chihuly. In monumental sculpture - I don't know why Lorado Taft's sculpture is there and there are no iconic images like Lincoln who is in another section, not a single mounted general, no French's Minute Man, Rudolph Evans' Jefferson, Prometheus or Atlas at Rockefeller Center or Marshall Fredericks' Spirit of Detroit. No image of Stone Mountain, Crazy Horse or Mt. Rushmore - a fairly unique American technique. No art deco section. The Late 20th century revival has two images - one from 1954, hardly late in the century. Rmhermen 05:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Representative?

message: Rod Patterson since I tend to do that with red links added by non-registered users.  There is also a picture of his work in the gallery that is not visable because it's not entered right.  Carptrash 01:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also just went into the Public monuments section and removed the pictures of museum works by Taft and MacMonnies and replaced them with a couple of detail shots from actual public monuments by Taft and MacMonnies.  Carptrash 06:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I just removed 

message: Does Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, and Stone Mountain fall under "Sculpture" if so I think these would be excellent additions, as examples of Sculpture of the United States. I can add them - but I didn't know what section they would come under. Lmielke359 22:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are sculpture (opinion) and might as well be their own section. Carptrash 14:22, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I added a section called "Carving mountains" to the Public Monuments section.  However, I am not a sculptor and know very little about sculpture as a discipline so this section may need to be cleaned up - especially to fit with the prose in the rest of the article.  A citation would also be nice for this section.  Are there any other mountain sculptures in the US that I missed?  Lmielke359 20:17, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the edit and reference help Carptrash.  Lmielke359 00:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sculpting Mountains 

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message: who feels that the "decorative arts" stuff at the start of the article does not really belong? 'cause I am seriously considering removing it. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 00:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am I the only one 

message: Now I have done it.  I feel that this whole section does not belong in a sculpture of anything article.  How about you?
:It doesn't really bother me to have a small decorative arts section, Don Judd always credited Shaker furniture as an influence on his work. 
I've added some major modernist figures like Di Suvero, Rickey, Tony Smith, Donald Judd, Nevelson, et.al. and
we should also cover minimalism, Land Art, and Post-modernism etc...Modernist (talk) 22:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have been threatening to do something like this for a while. 

message: and especially looking at the images, one could easily get the impression that most of the sculpture in the US of A is located in museums, particularly ones in Chicago.  I'm looking to change this but everyone, feel free to jump in.  Carptrash (talk) 04:41, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In reading this article 

message: Hi, Modernist. First, I'll gently remind you that the custom on Wikipedia is BRD: you made a Bold edit, I made a Reversion that you disagreed with, whereupon you should have opened a Discussion on the Talk page. 
So let's discuss. (I've left the sentence in while we chew it over, but I have corrected the punctuation.)
You say that no citation is required for the following sentence, because the article supports it: "American sculpture in its many forms, genres and guises has continuously contributed to the cultural landscape of world art into the 21st century." Would you kindly point out just where the article says that, and where the citations are? I see a lot of discussion about how world art contributed to U.S. sculpture, but not vice versa. PRRfan (talk) 17:03, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See the articles on Minimal art, Postminimalism, Site-specific art, Land art, Abstract Expressionism, and use WP:UCS...Modernist (talk) 17:17, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid that's unconvincing. You say "the article supports the sentence," then you point to other articles? PRRfan (talk) 03:15, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you kidding? This article discusses those articles I mention. But you know what - I really don't have time for this nonsense...Modernist (talk) 03:22, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I'll delete the sentence, which remains unsupported, and we can renew this discussion when your time permits. Cheers. PRRfan (talk) 03:26, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Learn about American sculpture and art in the world today and then maybe we can have a conversation...Modernist (talk) 03:27, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Leave the lede alone. You have not made your case. Get consensus for removal...Modernist (talk) 03:33, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, found a bit more time for discussion? Good. Then, I'll once again invite you to point out where the article backs up the sentence -- or, of course, to add relevant context and citations.PRRfan (talk) 03:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As I have already stated the article and the links supports the lede, read the article. Get consensus before removing the lede...Modernist (talk) 03:42, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Asserting is far from demonstrating. Kindly point out where the article makes the case for a continuous U.S. contribution to the world art landscape. I see only one relevant clause, supported only by a nearby "see also" link to a single movement, abstract expressionism: "...America led the rest of the world into a more iconoclastic and theoretical approach to modernism." PRRfan (talk) 03:57, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Minimalism as an important worldwide movement began in NYC in the early '60s. Minimalism by the late 1960s morphed via various figures like Hesse, Flavin, Serra, Smithson, Turrell into - Postminimalism which spread and influenced European art, Land art was also an outgrowth of American minimalism and conceptual art via Heizer, De Maria, Andre and others. David Smith. Calder, Noguchi and others also led the sculptural vanguard in the 1940s and 50s. It led to a generation of American welded sculptors with counterparts in England via Anthony Caro, and others, the American counterpart to Caro might be Mark di Suvero who also greatly influenced along with Serra site-specific sculpture...Modernist (talk) 04:07, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: American pop artists like Oldenburg and Segal also re-invigorated the use of imagery in vanguard sculpture worldwide. Basically American art dominated the last 50 years of the 20th century...Modernist (talk) 04:11, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I know that. But that's not the point. The point is that a sentence you added to the lead is not supported by text or citations in the article. I would invite you to add such text, along with relevant citations, to the article, which would then begin to support your assertion.PRRfan (talk) 04:13, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is pretty pathetic, as the statement is obviously true, and an understatement, but I suppose a citation from somewhere is needed, even though it is clearly Subject-specific common knowledge. Johnbod (talk) 22:57, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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message: this out of the "turn towards abstraction" section.
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A part of me want to remove pretty much all of that section, because, did the US really lead the rest of the world towards whatever it is we are claiming?  Carptrash (talk) 04:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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message: of the "Paris Years" section because although he did go to Paris he was a generation or so younger than the others in that section and really was not a part of what was going on then.  That section starts with "After the Civil War" and De Creeft was not even born until the late 1880s.  I'll find someone else to replace him with. Carptrash (talk) 16:33, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
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message: I took out works by Henry Moore, Picasso, and Sir Anthony Caro because they are not American.  I left Jacob Epstein. Carptrash (talk) 17:06, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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