Review: Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury

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Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury Marin R. Sullivan Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022, 272 pp., 25 color and 125 b/w illus. $60 (cloth), ISBN 9780691215778 Cécile Whiting Cécile Whiting University of California, Irvine, emerita Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 347–348. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.347 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Cécile Whiting; Review: Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 347–348. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.347 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Walking past corporate office buildings in Midtown Manhattan, attending a show at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, or traveling through the redesigned terminals at LaGuardia Airport offers opportunities to encounter contemporary art outside New York City’s many museums. Yet there is a significant difference between, for example, Richard Lippold’s Flight (1963), a custom-designed sculpture with a global flying theme created with architect Walter Gropius for the Vanderbilt Avenue lobby of what was once the Pan Am Building (ironically continuing to soar long after the grounding of its namesake airline and the building’s name change to MetLife), and the X-eyed behemoths created by the artist known as Kaws that recently invaded several Park Avenue lobbies. Focusing on the former case, Marin R. Sullivan’s recent book Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury examines several significant midcentury projects in which architect and sculptor collaborated to realize both functional and glamorous modern... You do not currently have access to this content.