The People's Park

The People’s Park showcases American artist Janet Ruttenberg’s monumental engagement with Central Park, bringing together years of work that combine a wide array of mediums, processes, and practices. It is a testament to her tenacious commitment, not only to a place, but also to the people that inhabit it. Reviving the grand landscape painting tradition, she mixes paint, print, video, and photography, forming what is truly a unique and unparalleled body of work. While her antecedents are the post-impressionists Seurat and Manet, she supersedes these influences by exploring the complex worlds of both images and the process of image-making. In addition to over 75 exquisite images, cataloguing her process, this monograph contains three illuminating scholarly essays, contextualizing and analyzing Ruttenberg’s oeuvre.