Download or read book Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 written by Michele Helene Bogart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogart's groundbreaking consideration of public art as a topic for serious scholarly consideration examines the sustained and organized effort to create in New York a body of municipal sculpture that would express the civic ideal: an urban vision of patriotism, civilization, and good government. It follows the brief movement through its rise and fall, attempting to explain why sponsorship for such civic projects lasted only for a limited time.