Interpretive Conventions in Site-Specific and Experimental Art: An analysis of Richard Serra’s Sculptures and Joseph McElroy’s Fictions
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3 janvier 2008
- doi: 10.4000/ejas.1553
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Keywords: Serra Richard McElroy Joseph Federal Plaza Lookout Cartridge Tilted Arc perception interpretation experimental fiction site-specific sculpture 9/11 terrorist attack.Sujets proches
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Flore Chevaillier, « Interpretive Conventions in Site-Specific and Experimental Art: An analysis of Richard Serra’s Sculptures and Joseph McElroy’s Fictions », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.1553
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In his essay “9/11 emerging,” Joseph McElroy brings into his comments on the destruction of the World Trade Center reflections on a quite different New York destruction, that of Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc in 1989. This gigantic work becomes a locus of questions about the role of art in the twenty-first century, especially after the terrorist attack of September eleventh. Likewise, it may suggest parallels between Serra’s sculpture and McElroy’s fiction, as both artists derange our perceptual...