%0 Journal Article
%T Interpretive Conventions in Site-Specific and Experimental Art: An analysis of Richard Serra¡¯s Sculptures and Joseph McElroy¡¯s Fictions
%A Flore Chevaillier
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2008
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.1553
%X In his essay ¡°9/11 emerging,¡± Joseph McElroy brings into his comments  on the destruction of the World Trade Center reflections on a quite different New York destruction, that of Richard Serra¡¯s Tilted Arc in 1989. This gigantic work becomes a locus of questions about the role of art in the twenty-first century, especially after the terrorist attack of September eleventh. Likewise, it may suggest parallels between Serra¡¯s sculpture and McElroy¡¯s fiction, as both artists derange our perceptual...
%K Keywords: Serra
%K site-specific sculpture
%K experimental fiction
%K interpretation
%K perception
%K Tilted Arc
%K Lookout Cartridge
%K Federal Plaza
%K Joseph
%K McElroy
%K Richard
%K 9/11 terrorist attack.
%U http://ejas.revues.org/1553