Siting Jefferson
Subtitle: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780813921839
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; History of specific subjects; Museums & Museology; Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Appreciation; Jefferson, Thomas; American - General; United States - General; Charlottesville Region; Exhibitions; Performance art; Site-specific installations (A; Site-specific installations (Art); Virginia
Description: "In the summer of 2000, the University of Virginia Art Museum mounted an unusual site-specific exhibition called "Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium," for which twenty-four artists created art-works inspired by Thomas Jefferson's legacy. The projects were conceptually ambitous and visually compelling, yet most were ephemeral, making the eighty illustrations and accompanying essays in Siting Jefferson a particularly valuable documentation of a largely unreplicable exhibition."--Jacket.