Connecting the Dots

"Full color photographs illustrate this amazing tour of the power of art and one man's dedication to peacefully fight for a better neighborhood. Highly recommended as an inspirational addition to both public library and private art book collection."—Midwest Book Review

"The impact of the many full colour images is heightened courtesy of the book's generous dimensions. Connecting the Dots is a particularly cohesive publication, successfully echoing the collaborative nature of The Heidelberg Project."—Raw Vision

"Connecting the Dots nevertheless does an adequate job of fleshing out the history and circumstance that help define two decades of Guyton's practice, looking at it first and foremost from a community perspective. The full-colour photographs included throughout this publication present a variety of site-specific images, including a spectacular bird's eye view of the Heidelberg block that makes the neighborhood seem lush and green, despite its reality as an urban environment in constant struggle."—Carousel Magazine

"Lavishly illustrated with photos, the book features a series of essays by a variety of people intimately familiar with the Project. Contributors include former Detroit director of cultural affairs Marilyn Wheaton; the late Detroit Free Press publisher Neal Shine; and Guyton himself."—African American Family

"This [Heidelberg] Project is a whole lot of things all at once-legal tangles and art-historical squabbles, neighborhood battles and demolitions, spiritual journeys and catfights, 'art' maybe, and life, surely life, that this project forces to an intensity that, regardless of one's view, is impossible not admire. That's the conflicted route, maybe the only route, that will really get you to Heidelberg Street."—Jerry Herron, Wayne State University Professor of English and Author of <A Href="Http://Wsupress.wayne.edu/Books/371/Afterculture">Afterculture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History</A>

"The essays in Connecting the Dots are intelligent and varied. Illuminated by their viewpoints, Guyton's Heidelberg Project shines like a jewel in the still-wounded city."—Thomas McEvilley, Department Chair of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and Author of from Breakthrough to Cul De Sac: Recent Developments in the Social History of Art

"The Heidelberg Project raises issues of art, politics, community development, underdevelopment, conflict, anger, and love. Connecting the Dots does a fine job of presenting this complexity with care and objectivity."—Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Author of Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art