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Tilted Arc
''Tilted Arc'' was a site-specific sculpture originally commissioned by the United States General Services Administration Arts-in-Architecture program for the Foley Federal Plaza in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Manhattan, New York City.〔Kammen, p.238〕 The post-minimalist artwork was designed by the well-known artist Richard Serra and constructed in 1981.〔Hopkins, p.159〕 However, after much debate, it was removed in 1989 following a lawsuit. Richard Serra is one of the leading minimalist sculptors and started his notable body of work after his graduation from Yale University where he studied fine art.〔 This work exemplifies his minimalist, conceptual style.〔 ''Tilted Arc'' was created when Serra was forty years old and was already a respected artist; thus, there was much attention given to the removal of his work.〔Bresler, p.195.〕
==Commissioning and design==
In 1979 the Art-in-Architecture program decided to commission a work of public art to grace the open space in front of a planned addition to the Javits Federal Building.〔Michalos, p.179〕 An outdoor sculpture would be designed for the plaza adjacent to a federal-office complex. Richard Serra was selected as the artist by the U.S. General Services Administration administrator, after having been recommended by a National Endowment for the Arts panel of art experts. Serra was already a notable artist at the time, with much admiration from the art world.〔Kammen〕 The contract for the commission included a release in which Serra gave the work to GSA, making it property of the United States.〔Kammen, p.196〕
Placed in the Federal Plaza, the work bisected the space, blocking views and paths of those who frequented the plaza.〔 The sculpture was a solid, unfinished plate of COR-TEN steel, , , and thick.〔 As its name suggests, it was slightly tilted. Serra said of the design, "The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes." The steel is self-oxidizing and is designed to develop a natural rust-like amber appearance over time.〔 The work was site-specific. Site-specificity in art means the piece cannot be removed from its location without losing its meaning: the location of a site-specific work is one of its fundamental constituents. In this case, Serra said the sculpture was meant to interact with the commuter passing through the plaza, a location usually passed through quickly on the way to somewhere else.〔
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