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Ghost Parking Lot, (sculpture). Artist:  Wines, James, 1932- , sculptor. SITE, Inc., fabricator. Title:  Ghost Parking Lot, (sculpture). Dates:  1978. Medium:  Automobiles covered in asphalt. Dimensions:  Variable: approx. W. 285 ft. x D. 20 ft. Description:  Twenty cars partially submerged in a parking lot. Subject:  Architecture -- Vehicle -- Automobile Object Type:  Site-specific Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Hamden Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Bermant, David, 63 Purdy Street, Harrison, New York 10428 Located Hamden Plaza, Hamden, Connecticut Remarks:  Nearby text reads: GHOST PARKING LOT PROJECT 1978/By SITE/The GHOST PARKING LOT PROJECT incorporates two typical/ingredients of the suburban shopping center - automobiles and asphalt -/and transforms them into another frame of reference. Twenty discarded/automobiles are enveloped by the paving surface on various graduated/levels from full exposure of the body contours to complete burial. The/concept deals with a number of factors characteristic of the American/mobilized experience - the blurred vision of motion itself, the fetishism of/the car, indeterminancy of place and object - and is conceived to generate/interest and dialogue in the community based upon an iconography of/equivocation and ambiguity./SITE, Inc., is world famous for its innovative designs including Best Products/Building, the Highway 86 for the Vancouver Canada 1986 Expo, the Ansel/Adams Foundation and Floating McDonalds (another project of National/Shopping Centers). David Bermant, one of the plaza owners, is associated with SITE in an advisory capacity. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993. "The David Bermant Collection: Color, Light, Motion," Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984, pg. 51. Illustration:  "The David Bermant Collection: Color, Light, Motion," Wadsworth Atheneum, 1984, pg. 51. Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 87670040   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87670040 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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