Public sculpture such as that by Maya Lin, Richard Serra, and Judy Chicago usually produces tremendous controversy when it is not representative, such as a conventional statue of a man on a horse, a...

Public sculpture such as that by Maya Lin, Richard Serra, and Judy Chicago usually produces tremendous controversy when it is not representative, such as a conventional statue of a man on a horse, a hero holding a rifl e and fl ag, or person of local fame. What do you think causes these more abstract works to attract controversy? Do you react negatively or positively to any of these three works?