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Carol Snyder Halberstadt

Sculpting Water And Light: Three Environmentally Responsive Fountains

Environmentally responsive fountains belong to their time and place. The ways in which they are designed and built cannot be separated from responsibility to the communities they are intended to enhance. In this era of global warming and a worldwide water crisis, it is especially crucial that a fountain fit its place, and be built with respect for the living waters it draws upon and the energy it consumes.

W. LaBier Jones

The Appeal Of Water

Public monuments have always depended on the cooperation of diverse groups and individuals, but the most successful incorporate what are considered to be the highest forms of architecture and art in their era.

Nancy DeJesus

Fountains As A Synthesis Of Sculpture, Water, And Land

Italian sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) created fountains that were at once functional and aesthetic, and for the first time in Rome brought magnificent fountains found in urban villas to public squares.

Kim Carpenter

Fountains Of Life/Allegories For Power: The Sculptures of Jean-Baptiste Tuby And Kent Ullberg

Water as a component of sculpture conjures images of tranquility, harmony, and peace.