{"id":13179,"date":"2015-07-05T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2015-07-05T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:27:25","slug":"our-responsibilities-transcend-our-aesthetic-proclivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/07\/05\/our-responsibilities-transcend-our-aesthetic-proclivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Our responsibilities transcend our aesthetic proclivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story by David W. Dunlap in the July 2, 2015 issue of The New York Times (\u2018Restoring a Lackluster Sculpture, for Legacy\u2019s Sake\u201d), $40,000 of public funding is being spent to restore \u201cFreedom of the Human Spirit\u201d, a bronze sculpture by Marshall M. Fredericks that has been standing in Flushing Meadows Corona Park since the 1964 World\u2019s Fair. A prime example of mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century monumental sculpture, the work is now out of fashion and favor. Yet, Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art and Antiquities for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation is quoted as saying about its restoration, \u201cOur responsibilities as custodians transcend our aesthetic proclivities.\u201d These words could be the conservator\u2019s motto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story by David W. Dunlap in the July 2, 2015 issue of The New York Times (\u2018Restoring a Lackluster Sculpture, for Legacy\u2019s Sake\u201d), $40,000 of public funding is being spent to restore \u201cFreedom of the Human Spirit\u201d, a bronze sculpture by Marshall M. Fredericks that has been standing in Flushing Meadows Corona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/07\/05\/our-responsibilities-transcend-our-aesthetic-proclivities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our responsibilities transcend our aesthetic proclivities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}