George Tsutakawa's fountain sculptures of the 1960s: fluidity and balance in postwar public art.

• Main Author: Cuthbert, Nancy Marie
• Other Authors: Thomas, Christopher A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: George Tsutakawa; American modernism; modern design; silicon bronze sculpture; welded sheet metal sculpture; West Coast modernism; Pacific Northwest; Seattle public art; Century 21; Fulton Mall; postwar shopping center design; Asian American art; World War II Japanese internment; Nisei; Kibei; machine aesthetic; abstract art; spirituality in art; Lawrence Halprin; environmentalism in art; International Style architecture; postwar urban planning; Ala Moana Center; Northgate Shopping Center; University of Washington School of Architecture; Zen in America; Bauhaus in America; Walter Gropius; Victor Gruen; Mark Tobey; Japanese American; Henry Moore; Sigfried Giedion; Lewis Mumford; Alexander Archipenko; Paul Horiuchi; Johsel Namkung; Dudley Carter; Freeway Park; Seattle; Bentall Centre; Vancouver; Seattle Public Library; secondary Orientalism; organicism in art; modernist architecture; Canada; Fulton; Mumford; Pacific; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4142

Between 1960 and 1992, American artist George Tsutakawa (1910 – 1997) created more than sixty fountain sculptures for publicly accessible sites in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The vast majority were made by shaping sheet bronze into geometric and organically inspired abstract forms, often arranged a...