Peril in the Square

Download or read book Peril in the Square written by Geoffrey Joseph Wallis and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peril in the Square follows the highs and lows of Vault, Ron Robertson-Swanns bright yellow abstract sculpture dubbed by its detractors as the Yellow Peril. Vault was the catalyst for the most furious debate over the rights and wrongs of art in public places ever witnessed in Australia. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, most of them in color, this book gives readers the full story of Melbournes best-known public art work, from its beginnings as a maquette that shocked the city council in the late 1970s, all the way to its present resurrection at Southbank.