Œuvre d'art public

The Promise

Christopher McNamara, The Promise, 1991
Christopher McNamara, The Promise, 1991
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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Artwork creator(s): 
McNamara, Christopher
Text author(s): 
McNamara, Christopher
Installation year: 
1991
Remarks on location: 

JC Teron Co. commercial billboards

Description: 

Photographic image on a billboard

Text of the artwork: 

THE PROMISE: JAM TOMORROW… --- We had this little cottage… ---

Dreamerie IN CONTROL --- SPONSORED BY: ARTCITE ARTIST CHRIS MCNAMARA

Text reference: 

De l’autre côté du miroir et de ce qu’Alice y trouva

Carroll, Lewis (1975).  De l’autre côté du miroir et de ce qu’Alice y trouva. Paris : Flammarion, p. 134
History: 
Event: In Control, billboard project by artists, organized by ARTCITE, Windsor, ON. Commissioner: Lorenzo Buj.
Event date(s): 
1991
Artist's biography: 
McNamara, Christopher
Document(s): 

Sites of New Tradition: Temporary Public Art in Windsor

Cronin, Ray (1992).  Sites of New Tradition: Temporary Public Art in Windsor. Parallélogramme. vol. 17, no. 3, p. 40-47

In Control. Various Locations. Windsor, Ontario

Cronin, Ray (1991).  In Control. Various Locations. Windsor, Ontario. Fuse Magazine . vol. 15, no. 1/2, p. 56

In Control

Buj, Lorenzo (1991).  In Control. Windsor : Artcite, p. 30

Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years

Heon, Laura Stewart, Peggy Diggs, Dorin Lisa (1999).  Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years. Cambridge : MIT Press; North Adams, p. 106