European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse I / it How one chicagoan described the Jean Dubu tet sculpture outside the slate abominable snowman the outdoor aft people go look Al a sculpture and yell horrors. Whal they re doing is just expressing an animal instinct of fear. And what do they ear something they Don t Gabovitz said she Wasyl afraid of the Art she list did t want to be forced to look at it in recent limes similar Art controversies have rounded the nation s cultural fabric Anci in one Cane its paint cloth. Well almost the philistines Harj a Field Day in Atlanta a Lew years Back when a Jara Toi in the Richard Russell building Home of Federal offices mistook an unframed Canvas by Arhat Sam Gilliam. Worth $50,000. Lor a Painter s drop cloth and tried to throw it out the $450.000 Worth of Art in Atlanta s ultramodern Harl shield International Airport also stirred a tempest in 1ho Public pain pol when the new terminal opened in the tall of 19bo. Bob Jones lit. Head of Bob Jones University in Greenville 5 called Lor the removal irom Public View of a lewd photograph of a woman s backs Shirley Franklin Ihen City commissioner of cultural affairs defended artist Michael Side s dancer in leotards As a statement about the Beauty of the human it you reasoning holds answered inc affronted evangelist. Ihen Lei s All Lake Olf our clothes in order to Grace the world artists Aren t the Only ones making statements As Stephan Antonakos Lound out when Atlanta Constitution columnist Lewis Grizzard the John Ruskin of the rednecks critiqued his collage of Geometric bus no coloured Neon tubing. Compared to the Arliff responsible for the Neon in Atlanta s Airport the Guy who did the Isle of Palm Mold to vacancy spelled list like Ihal was an artistic Philadelphia where the concept of All Calmy funds Lor Lino Art in Public projects was invented in 1959. Is now involved in a reverse Posl Modem isl soil ii seems Trie 24.1987 if Illinois Center in the Windy City. Mandarins of municipal culture rejected a sculpt ire o Thomas Jefferson on the grounds that in looked suspiciously like Thomas Jellerson to connoisseurs of the abstract. The surreal and the phallic nonfunctional any hmm resembling classical Pigeon flecked Pedestal statuary is is abhor real As a Ca aboard cutout of stripper Ann Cono in. The lobby of the old Trocadero burlesque House convinced that the Odds were loaded in Lavor of environment Art sculptor Walter Erlebacher withdrew his commission charging Ihal the Tine arts selection committee seemed confused Between acting legitimately in acs thetic guidance and acting As a dictatorship in censoring a particular Al form " at the Sale Capitol in Olympia was Logi Salors deemed Michael spa Llord s murals of the 12 labors of Hercules obscene and Voled to have them draped Over Wilh curtains. When Senate a Onty Leader Ted Bolliger led a drive to have Arhat Alden Mason s murals removed irom the upper chamber he was bes ged Wilh Tione Calls 1 because of you big City press pc Elf Bot Tirjer fumed i had to explain All Day i m not a redneck Rural Stum Siebum i be got three cell cujo degrees i m Riol anti Art Ive Tel Art in my Soltice Wilh the Price lags on it All i ask is Ihal thu frames blend in Wilh the or cur Claes of Danburg a Clothespin in Philadelphia. Steel sculpture by Yigael Tumarkin in Allentown a. The stars and stripes Page 15
