1. Face Value at the Capitol.
- Author
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Gay Stolberg, Sheryl
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MINORITIES in art , *HISTORY of the arts , *WOMEN in art , *POLITICAL correctness - Abstract
Offers a look at the campaign of United States Senator Christopher J. Dodd to correct the lack of images of women and members of minorities in the nation's Capitol building. Promotion of diversity; Dodd's position on the Senate Committee on Art; Reference to the book "Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860," by Vivien Green Fryd; Discussion of political correctness versus accurate history; Search for art pieces of women and minorities; Dispute over the creation of the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol Dome.
- Published
- 2003