From Monuments to Memorials: The Politics of Modernist Public Art in the 1970s and 1980s

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Casey Blake, Professor of History, Columbia University

Casey Blake specializes in U.S. intellectual-cultural history, and is director of the undergraduate program in American Studies. He is the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumbord. He is currently working on three book length projects: Public Art and the Civic Imagination in Contemporary America, The Arts of Democracy: Art, Civic Culture, and The State, and a collection of essays on the culture and politics of the 1970s, co-edited with Kenneth Cmile.