ABSTRACT
In site sculpture, strictly speaking, the place or site determines the form of the work just as system and process do in those two modes. The extraordinarily inventive Oldenburg also anticipated another type of sculpture, which became popular in the late seventies, architectural sculpture. Sculpture has for some time been raiding architecture. In 1970, Athena Tacha's work is a synthesis of both site and architectural sculpture. In ancient India it was believed that each artist, before becoming painter, sculptor, poet or musician, had first to master dance, mother of the arts. The structural kinship of sculpture with "lower" organisms or aspects of "inanimate" nature comes ultimately from deep-rooted conviction that all matter is alive—a kind of pantheistic attitude. Alice Aycock is another of the seventies sculptors who works within an architectural idiom. Aycock's work differs from other architectural sculpture in the narrative, theatrical, Surrealist quality that flavors it.
