Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Logan at some time during their college career, but now the airport offers something more interesting than biographies of Princess Diana. The Massport Authority has just completed a $1 billion modernization project, including a new elevated walkway between the terminals. The walkway is decorated with an extensive public art project called Atlantic Journey, created by Somerville artist and country singer Jane Goldman. It is the largest public art installation in New England and aims to beautify the airport while evoking "Boston." The project, set in the floor of the walkway between two moving sidewalks, depicts the ocean and marine animals...
Goldman had several motivations for her design. She thought that airport public art should be calming and relaxing, since air travel is stressful for many people, and they don't need to have their nerves jarred by confrontational or unpleasant art. In addition, she thought that it should be acessible to as many people as possible, and also communicate something about the city it is located in-- "a sense of place so that the Logan experience feels uniquely like Boston, as opposed to, say Phoenix," she mused. The nautical theme does all of this well--it reflects the ocean that...
...more interesting to look at than others, the entire project is a very clever idea and is quite well executed. It is lively and avoids monotony through the use of different animals and the changes in water depth as one moves along. It is a fine project of public art, beautifying the built environment and representing the community that commissioned it through accessible images and themes...
...search for the original language, the purest language of poetry, inevitably leads Hollander into age-old questionings about the line between art and truth. The really fascinating (and even kind of moving) poems in Figurehead express a powerful anxiety over the duel power of art to both display and destroy truth. Art, Hollander claims, is not only an "'expression'/ of pain and longing, of delight and hope," but also is a physical power in and of itself, intimately connected with physical pain and destruction. Hollander continually focuses on the ultimate emptiness of all art. He obsesses over the power...
...Arachne's Story," one of the most profoundly unsettling poems in the book, Hollander describes the terror of art overtaking life and becoming more real than life itself, turning life into a void emptier even than art. Describing an image in a Arachne's web, Hollander claims "That image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice...