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Article: Peter Voulkos at Braunstein Quay.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Peter Voutkos died in 2002 at the age of 78, but he is still celebrated for the pioneering ways he used clay as a fine-art material in the mid-1950s. He also garnered a formidable reputation for the monumentally scaled bronze sculptures that he created during the 1960s and '70s, most of which are permanently sited in public spaces--a famous example being Hall of Justice (1971), standing in front of San Francisco's building of the same name. Because Voulkos maintained separate studios for metalwork and ceramics, it has been erroneously assumed that he schizophrenically kept his practices separate. According to this interpretation, the quasi-industrial metalwork practice ...