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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Detroit, Michigan, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal2003 (design)en_US
dc.creatorBarr, David Johnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-28T14:20:03Z
dc.date.available2013-03-28T14:20:03Z
dc.date.issued2013-03-28
dc.identifier203597en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1304en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/111556
dc.descriptionFrontal view looking east towards the Detroit River with Windsor, ON, Canada skyline in the lower distance; David Barr and Sergio De Guisti are the men behind the most recent contribution to the public art scene, Transcending, a gift from Detroit's labor unions to commemorate the city's 300th birthday. Barr taught briefly at WSU and spent nearly 40 years teaching art design, drawing and sculpture at Macomb Community College. He won WSU's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1983. De Guisti was an art history and studio art teacher at Wayne State for 15 years and was a visiting artist at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin. He received WSU's Arts Achievement Award in 1996. Barr designed the 59-foot-high Transcending sculpture, located on Woodward Avenue near Hart Plaza. It consists of two stainless-steel half arcs mounted on a cement platform encircled by split boulders, each supporting a bronze relief depicting De Guisti's interpretation of scenes from Detroit's labor history. Inscribed within the main arcs is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., "The arc of history bends toward justice." Source: Life@Wayne [Wayne State News website]; http://life.wayne.edu/ (accessed 1/27/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel: stainless steel; marble; granite; bronze; electric lightingen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectabstraction or non-objectiveen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectLabor unionsen_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleTranscendingen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-BD-T-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquemetalworking casting (process)en_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayDavid John Barr (American sculptor, born 1939)en_US


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