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Title
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Kansas City: Sunspots and Night Ladders
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Description
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Review of work by Kansas City artists such as Louis Cicotello, Joan Livingston, and Dale Eldred, etc.
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Date
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1979-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dale Eldred
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Description
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File contains numerous newspaper articles and other material on sculptor Dale Eldred, former head of the sculpture department at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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East Gate Sculpture
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Description
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Sculpture located near the east edge of the Kansas City Art Institute, located at 45th and Oak streets. Sculptor Dale Eldred received an award for its design.
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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City Park
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Description
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City park located at 27th Street and Madison Avenue. Designers Elpidio Rocha and Dale Eldred were awarded for imaginative use of materials in the design of this park.
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Date
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1964
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sculptor Dale Eldred
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Description
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Several clippings and photos from 1958 to 1975 about the work of Dale Eldred, a Kansas City sculptor native to Minneapolis coming to Kansas City about 1958 as the head of the department of sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute, creating large landscape sculptures locally and elsewhere.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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The Lure of Inconsequence: Three Essays on the Politics of Anti-Realism
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Description
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Photo and abridged versions of three essays from the magazine (the Chouteau Review journal of fine arts, published in Kansas City) about "contemporary anti-realist arts and letters, bristling with anti-bourgeois pretensions, often serv[ing] the reactionary forces they presume to oppose." Examples given "with two internationally-feted public arts projects staged in Kansas City--the Wrapped Walkways Project by Christo, and the Nelson Gallery Time-Light Incident by Dale Eldred," with comparisons of Christo to Evel Knievel, etc.
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Date
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1985
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Rewards of Surrender: Upward Failure in Dale Eldred's Nelson Gallery Time-Light Incident
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Description
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Article about the sculpture-like art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art of artist Dale Eldred, criticizing it and the work of fellow artist Christo for "their anti-intellectual standards. ..perfectly aligned with those of the cash society they pretend to mock," with references to George Will, Noam Chomsky, Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzche, Jean Cocteau, and Kansas City art critics Donald Hoffman and Hollister Sturges, with photos.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Sculptor Builds a Playground
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Description
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Photos and article about "the new playground park at 27th and Madison" Streets in Kansas City, designed by local sculptor Dale Eldred in 1962 (interviewed by fellow sculptor Richard Hollander) after resignation from the job by Elpidio Rocha for the Public Welfare and Recreation Department of Kansas City. Photos of children playing on the landscaped log and stone jungle gyms and pool water jets, etc.
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Date
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1962-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
