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Caring by William King
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography
Caring
Photo CreditCarol M. Highsmith Photography

Caring

Artist
Year1978
Classification sculpture
Medium aluminum
Dimensions22 x 32 x 6 ft. (670.5 x 975.3 x 182.9 cm)
Credits Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • The huge aluminium sculpture depicts two figures: one standing and one on one knee. "Caring" has been described as a "sculpture of cosmic gesture.  It is sculpture that choreographs a scenario of sociability, of conscious affections and unavowed pretensions, transforming the world of observed manners and unacknowledged motives into minelike structures of cosmic revolution...it is sculpture that draws from the vast repertory of socialized human gesture a very personal vocabulary of contemporary sculptural forms." The sculpture was created in conjunction with a sculpture entitled "Caritas," and originally carried the same name.  King changed the title of the completed sculpture to "Caring" to better convey his intended meaning.