Landmarks

This marvelously readable and prolifically illustrated publication is a first-hand explication of the world-renowned Stuart Collection by its founding Director, the venerable Mary Beebe. Beebe’s lively account of initiating and husbanding each site-specific piece into being is accompanied by revelatory interviews with the artists and the distinguished scholar Robert Storr’s fine introduction.—Hugh M. Davies, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego The Stuart Collection is one of the wonders of the world. Mary Beebe and her team have created something truly unique and visionary, and this catalog will help it be endlessly celebrated and imitated. Kudos to UC San Diego for supporting this gift of magic and imagination from some of the greatest artists of our time.—Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum UCLA The Stuart Collection is one of a kind. Major artists are commissioned for specific places, and again and again the result has been their best work. Landmarks is a vivid portrait of the collection and the lively story of how it came to be.—John Walsh, Director Emeritus, J. Paul Getty Museum The continuous miracle. . . . With its poetic and conceptual jewels, the San Diego campus makes it possible in this day and age to think and to dream. And that is the essential quality of the adventure undertaken in 1980 by James Stuart DeSilva.—Pierre Restany, critic and educator The Stuart Collection of environmental sculpture at the University of California, San Diego, is as impressive for what it avoids as for what it so imaginatively accomplishes.—David Joselit, Distinguished Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY