Civic Art
        
                    
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            Thomas E. Luebke
        
        
                
                            
        
        
        
                    
                ISBN: 9780160897023
            
        
                    
                Publication Date: 2013-01-01
            
        
                
                            
                This comprehensive history explores the evolving role of the Commission of Fine Arts in the context of the artistic, social, and political circumstances that fostered the commission's creation and the subsequent trends that have informed its decisions. As design philosophies and styles changed over the century, the commission also shifted its emphasis --from Beaux-Arts architecture and planning principles to the modernist pragmatism of midcentury, the urban redevelopment and historicist trends of the late twentieth century, to contemporary issues of security, sustainability, and information technology.