Scott Burton

Sydney Besthoff: Collecting New Orleans-style (2004)

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R.J. Preece - 01 Oct 04

...Scott Burton, Lynn Chadwick, Sandro Chia, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Allan McCollum, Henry Moore, Arnaldo Pomodoro, George Rickey, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, and Ossip Zadkine. (The remaining nine were museum purchases or gifts from other donors.) Previously, most of the Besthoffs’...

Scott Burton

Morris Arboretum: A living collection (2000)

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R.J. Preece - 01 Mar 00

...Scott Burton’s Rock chair (1988–90), the Arboretum’s most recent arrival, lent by New York gallery owner Max Protech, blends in with the site due to its subtle granite form and casts delightful shadows on its void. In the distance, John and Lydia Morris (1981), in life-size naturalistic forms cast...

Scott Burton

Usable Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92

...Scott Burton, Cynthia Carlson, Robert Kushner, Arlene Slavin and George Sugarman. “Usable Art” referred to objects made by fine artists that served practical functions as against purely aesthetic ones: e.g. vehicles, kites, furniture, greenhouses, lights, tiles, pots, jewellery, clothes....

Scott Burton

Performance Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92

...Scott Burton— formed the “Association for Performance” to promote, present and preserve new forms of “artists’ theatre”. Other American artists noted for Performance included: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Chris Burden (who organized situations in which his life was put at risk), John...

Scott Burton