  
Gregory R. Miller & Co.Ellen Harvey: New York Beautification ProjectArtwork by Ellen Harvey.
Between 1999 and 2001, small old-fashioned landscapes painstakingly executed in oil started to appear on graffiti sites across New York City. The paintings were the work of the well-known artist Ellen Harvey. Documented here are both the works and Harvey's diaristic accounts of painting illegally throughout the city. The narrative of her “beautification project” is both provocative and hilarious. It touches on such issues as who is allowed to make art in our society, and what distinguishes art from graffiti, while never losing touch with the frequently comical reality of creating a contemporary art project on the streets of New York.PUBLISHED BY:Gregory R. Miller & Co.
LIST PRICE: US $25.00 CAD $30.00
FORMAT:Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 100 pgs / 80 color.
ISBN: 9780974364810 ISBN10: 0974364819
PUBLICATION DATE:07/15/2005
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Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine ArtsEllen Harvey: MirrorEssays by Alex Baker and Shamim Momin.
The artist best known for her New York Beautification Project--40 lozenge-shaped miniature landscapes illicitly painted on urban surfaces in public spaces around New York City from 1999 to 2001--has gone legit and gone indoors with Mirror, a site-specific installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Playing off the Academy's Victorian architecture and academic traditions, in which students copy works of art, Harvey literally holds a mirror up to Frank Furness' Victorian Gothic architecture, copying the image of his interior stair hall as a nearly life-size reverse engraving on mirror. The glass is illuminated from behind so the engraved lines glow, and the resulting nearly 360-degree drawn environment is anchored by a video projection of Harvey creating the work. Mirror documents and puts in context Harvey's most ambitious site-specific work to date, and also serves as a mini-monograph, a short survey of her career, highlighting projects from 1998 to the present with brief descriptions written by the artist.PUBLISHED BY:Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts
LIST PRICE: US $25.00 CAD $30.00
FORMAT:Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color.
ISBN: 9780943836287 ISBN10: 094383628X
PUBLICATION DATE:02/01/2006
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