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Connecting the Dots: Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project (Painted Turtle Press) Hardcover – June 20, 2007
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Because of its unorthodox nature and large scope, Guyton's art has often met fierce opposition in his own neighborhood while garnering raves from around the world. Connecting the Dots explores this tension in "Art or Eyesore?" by landscape architecture expert and Harvard lecturer John Beardsley and in Detroit News reporter Michael Hodges's essay, "Heidelberg and the Community." Former Detroit Free Press editor and publisher Neal Shine adds a piece on Sam Mackey, Guyton's grandfather and the artist's inspiration for the project. In addition, a complete legal perspective on the Heidelberg Project is presented by attorney Daniel S. Hoops, and the city's position on the project is explained by Marilyn Wheaton, former director of Detroit's Cultural Affairs Department. Wayne State University professor of art history Marion E. Jackson also offers an aesthetic analysis of Guyton's project, and Detroit native Aku Kadogo discusses bringing Guyton and his project to Sydney, Australia. Connecting the Dots concludes with an "inside view" of the Heidelberg Project in a piece by Jenenne Whitfield, the project's executive director.
Connecting the Dots presents these essays along with a thoughtful introduction by Wayne State University professor of English Jerry Herron and an artist's statement by Tyree Guyton. Numerous photographs of Guyton's artwork are also included in this full-color oversized volume. Artists, art historians, and those interested in Detroit cultural affairs will enjoy this comprehensive and intriguing book.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWayne State University Press
- Publication dateJune 20, 2007
- Dimensions9.6 x 0.59 x 11.24 inches
- ISBN-100814333206
- ISBN-13978-0814333204
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"Full color photographs illustrate this amazing tour of the power of art and one man's dedication to peacefully fight for a better neighborhood. Highly recommended as an inspirational addition to both public library and private art book collection."―Midwest Book Review
"The impact of the many full colour images is heightened courtesy of the book's generous dimensions. Connecting the Dots is a particularly cohesive publication, successfully echoing the collaborative nature of The Heidelberg Project."―Raw Vision
"Connecting the Dots nevertheless does an adequate job of fleshing out the history and circumstance that help define two decades of Guyton's practice, looking at it first and foremost from a community perspective. The full-colour photographs included throughout this publication present a variety of site-specific images, including a spectacular bird's eye view of the Heidelberg block that makes the neighborhood seem lush and green, despite its reality as an urban environment in constant struggle."―Carousel Magazine
"Lavishly illustrated with photos, the book features a series of essays by a variety of people intimately familiar with the Project. Contributors include former Detroit director of cultural affairs Marilyn Wheaton; the late Detroit Free Press publisher Neal Shine; and Guyton himself."―African American Family
"This [Heidelberg] Project is a whole lot of things all at once-legal tangles and art-historical squabbles, neighborhood battles and demolitions, spiritual journeys and catfights, 'art' maybe, and life, surely life, that this project forces to an intensity that, regardless of one's view, is impossible not admire. That's the conflicted route, maybe the only route, that will really get you to Heidelberg Street."―Jerry Herron, Wayne State University Professor of English and Author of Afterculture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History
"The essays in Connecting the Dots are intelligent and varied. Illuminated by their viewpoints, Guyton's Heidelberg Project shines like a jewel in the still-wounded city."―Thomas McEvilley, Department Chair of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and Author of from Breakthrough to Cul De Sac: Recent Developments in the Social History of Art
"The Heidelberg Project raises issues of art, politics, community development, underdevelopment, conflict, anger, and love. Connecting the Dots does a fine job of presenting this complexity with care and objectivity."―Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Author of Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art
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- Publisher : Wayne State University Press (June 20, 2007)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0814333206
- ISBN-13 : 978-0814333204
- Item Weight : 2.18 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.6 x 0.59 x 11.24 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,590,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Heidelberg Project is fascinating for the multiple layers of meaning to be derived and for a complex visual aesthetic that grabs you by the collar and insists on being addressed. Each of the contributors to the volume investigates a piece of a very large whole--intent, autobiography, community reception, the role of the artist in society, legal challenges, building community, the role of the city government and Detroit's churches in the work's fortunes, the project's social and artistic agendas, etc. That the complexities of the Project are given full voice adds to the volume's richness and gives the mind something to consider long after the book's end is reached.
Traveling to the Heidelberg Project has been a life-changing experience for hundreds of my students at the University of Michigan. The arrival of this provocative book provides the best road map I could have hoped for to lead them further down a journey that begins with Tyree Guyton's masterful work on Heidelberg Street.