Untitled: detail of drinking fountain looking south
Creator
Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.) Asher, Michael (American conceptual artist, born 1943) Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
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Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description
Garden and Landscape Architecture and City Planning Science, Technology and Industry Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design Sculpture and Installations Performing Arts (including Performance Art) Replica of an institutional, steel, drinking fountain that one finds in offices and schools. Normally located up against a wall, Asher includes a lip on one edge of the basin even though his drinking fountain is free standing. Asher's work pulls in the already existing elements of the site, bringing symmetry to a previously asymmetric layout. Although Asher was a seminal figure in Los Angeles and has been widely recognized in Europe, his untitled project for the Stuart Collection is his only permanent public outdoor work in the United States. This functional, polished, granite drinking fountain is an exact replica of commercial metal fountains typically found in business offices and government buildings. Instead of its usual context as interior office furniture, the fountain is placed monument like on a grass island in the center of Myers Drive next to the university administration offices and the Price Center. The siting of his work is fundamental to its meaning; it is juxtaposed with a large American flag and a granite landmark commemorating Camp Matthews, a World War II training center and artillery and rifle range which occupied the land on which UCSD now stands. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact) Matthews Quad, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
Type
image
Format
Granite (rock); water
Form/Genre
installations landscape architecture replicas political art outdoor sculpture drinking fountains site-specific works sculpture public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb9250809d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Contemporary Trees Paths Symmetry Campuses American Banality (Philosophy) Lawns (landscaped grass) Drinking fountains Monuments Quadrangles (open spaces) University of California, San Diego--History Installations Landscape architecture Replicas Political art Outdoor sculpture Site-specific works Sculpture Public art
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