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these efforts by stating, "As a self-serving marketing ploy, malls and upscale suburban housing <br /> developments are increasingly dotted with saccharine bronzes of frolicking kiddies and benign <br /> wildlife." (Doss 2012, p. 18) <br /> The desire to avoid controversy and conflict has resulted in many public art installations <br /> that are banal and traditional. As such, they often fail to serve the purpose of inciting any sort of <br /> meaningful public discourse. But even traditional representational art has been the subject of <br /> controversy. Doss (2012) states that numerous groups across the country have indicted <br /> representational art for a variety of reasons: In San Jose, California, citizens opposed the plan to <br /> install a monumental bronze sculpture of a U.S.Army captain, claiming that it glorified <br /> militarism; in Denver, Colorado, the Commission on Cultural Affairs objected to the inclusion a <br /> Black Panther and Hispanic activist in a mural depicting the City; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, <br /> opponents portrayed the large fiberglass sculpture Hunky Steelworker as a racial slur on Eastern <br /> Europeans. <br /> Even Glenna Goodacre's sculpture of children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in <br /> Loveland, Colorado, was criticized as an "alarming propagandist depiction of social control" <br /> (Doss 2012).Another traditionalist style sculpture of Goodacre depicted an inclusive mix of <br /> adults and children of various racial and ethnic mix, and was criticized for portraying only <br /> narrow, stereotypical images. Doss submits that, art styles are constantly in flux and that <br /> controversy is created when consumers sense the manner in which art styles are used to convey <br /> other, often hidden, agendas. She concludes that, "Indeed controversies over public art style <br /> really unmask deeper concerns Americans have regarding their voice in the public sphere." (Doss <br /> 2012, p. 21) <br /> 56 <br />