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Architecture and City Planning Sculpture and Installations Garden and Landscape Fleischner's La Jolla Project, completed in 1984 and the third work in the Stuart Collection, is located on the Revelle College lawn south of Galbraith Hall. Seventy-one blocks of pink and gray granite are arranged in configurations that refer to architectural vocabulary: posts, lintels, columns, arches, windows, doorways, and thresholds. Like players on a field or game pieces (Fleischner made a series of small gamelike sculptures in the late sixties), these elements transform an ordinary, nearly flat lawn into a space with allusions ranging from an ancient ruin to the contemporary construction site. Fleischner's work is always determined by the topography of a site, its spatial relationships, and the distinctive ways people move through and around it. What is most important for him is to interpret and essentialize a place by using minimal means to delineate natural lines and boundaries, while establishing an interplay of horizontal and vertical elements. There is no single way to experience La Jolla Project - it generates a complex set of spatial and historical relationships which invigorate and give meaning to the formerly undefined area it occupies. From: http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artists/fleischner.shtml UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) The La Jolla Project is more commonly known on campus as "Stonehenge." It is a popular place for students to go to talk or study. Revelle College: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
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image
Format
Lawns (landscaped grass); pink granite; granite (rock); site approximately 2 acres
Form/Genre
site-specific works outdoor sculpture architecture (object genre) post-and-beam structures sculpture (visual work) public art lawns (landscaped grass) sculpture gardens follies (architectural) Minimal Abstract (fine arts style) installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5837806t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Artists Portals Classicism Contemporary Construction (assembling) Shadows Arches Geometric abstraction Artificial ruins Antique, the Light (energy) Space (composition concept) American Minimal Ruins University of California, San Diego--History Site-specific works Outdoor sculpture Architecture (object genre) Post-and-beam structures Sculpture (visual work) Public art Lawns (landscaped grass) Sculpture gardens Follies (architectural) Abstract (fine arts style) Installations (visual works) Fleischner, Richard (American environmental artist and sculptor, born 1944)
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