Christo's gates and Gilo's wall

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 587-601

  Mitchell, W J T ^a  

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EID: 61249111219     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508081     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. See Jay Appleton, The Experience of Landscape (London, 1996).
2. For simplicity's sake I will be referring to Jeanne-Claude and Christo's installation The Gates: Central Park, New York, 1979-2003 as Christo's Gates throughout this essay.
3. I am grateful to Israeli artist Larry Abramson for introducing me to this remarkable piece of landscape art and for his advice on this essay. I have also benefited greatly from Ruth Malul Zadka, "The 'Transparent' Wall in Jerusalem's Gilo Neighborhood" (M.A. thesis, University of Leeds in Israel, Tel Aviv, 2003). My thanks also go to Elizabeth Helsinger and Bill Brown, both of whom read an earlier draft of this paper and made very helpful comments on it.
4. Larry Abramson, email correspondence, 18 Mar. 2006.
5. Zadka, "The 'Transparent' Wall in Jerusalem's Gilo Neighborhood," p. 14.
6. OCHA Weekly Briefing Notes, 28 Jan. 2004, www.humanitarianinfo.org/opt/ docs/UN/OCHA/WBN39.pdf
7. See Blake Gopnik, "Christo's Gates: A Little Creaky," Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2005, p. D1. Gopnik, like many other reviewers, dismissed Christo's Gates as merely ornamental, utterly lacking in "the kind of puzzling, complex, probing experience we're supposed to get from significant art."
8. Alexander Pope, Selected Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. William K. Wimsatt, Jr. (New York, 1964), ll. 11-14, p. 42.
9. See Robert Smithson, "Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape," The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam (Berkeley, 1996).
10. Quoted in Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Ithaca, N.Y., 1992), pp. 196-97.
11. See Carol Fabricant, "Binding and Dressing Nature's Loose Tresses: The Ideology of Augustan Landscape Design," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, no. 8 (1979): 109-35.
12. William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Andrew Jackson George (Oxford, 1932), ll. 4-8, p. 163.