Visualizing the Universe: Athena Tacha's Proposals for Public Art Commissions 1972 - 2012

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and the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville. The book pays special attention to projects that have been developed since 2000, which include some of Tacha's most ambitious work, notably her multiple sculptures at Wisconsin Place in Washington, D.C. As Glenn Harper, editor of Sculpture magazine, notes in the Introduction (co-authored with Twylene Moyer): This book is a testament to a lifetime's worth of projects devoted to creating public sculptural environments that translate the forms and forces of nature into abstract playgrounds for the human body and mind. Inspired by geometric growth and generative patterning on both micro and macro levels, they reinterpret the various concerns of earthwork and Minimalism, abstraction, place-making and social interaction through a cosmic lens that sees human beings and our efforts as part of a larger system. Offers a unique insight into the complexities of public art competitions in America, featuring proposals from a world-renowned sculptorDoubles as a study on some of Athena Tacha's most groundbreaking and innovative work Visualizing the Universe offers a unique insight into the complexities of public art competitions in America by focusing on one of its pioneers, Athena Tacha. Contents: Introductio