A companion to public art / edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knight, Cher Krause, editor.

Senie, Harriet F., editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 11.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History ; 11

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (591 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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Summary:

A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. * Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves * Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks * Covers important topics in the field, including valorizing victims, public art in urban landscapes and on university campuses, the role of digital technologies, jury selection committees, and the intersection of public art and mass media * Contains "artist's philosophy" essays, which address larger questions about an artist's body of work and the field of public art, by Julian Bonder, eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht), John Craig Freeman, Antony Gormley, Suzanne Lacy, Caleb Neelon, Tatzu Nishi, Greg Sholette, and Alan Sonfist.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

A Companion to Public Art

References

Part I: Traditions

Introduction

Suggested Further Reading

Artists' Philosophies

Memory Works

Public Art?

Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments

Reference

1 Memorializing the Holocaust

Germany

Poland

Israel

The United States

2 Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared

Chilean Memorials of the Disappeared under the Dictatorship

Circulating Textiles: The Arpilleras

Post‐Dictatorial Chilean Government Sponsorship and Memorial Construction

Monumento a Detenidos Desaparecidos y Ejecutados Políticos, Santiago General National Cemetery

Visitor Responses to the MDDEP

Carving Names in Stone

Site Specificity in Chilean (Un)Official Commemoration

Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi

Conclusion

3 Modern Mural Painting in the United States

American Murals before the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Mural Painting in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Mural Painting in the United States, 1920-1945

Post‐World War II to the 1980s

Community‐Based Mural Painting in the Civil Rights Era

4 Locating History in Concrete and Bronze

Cultural Politics and Monuments in the Third Republic, Mali

Monuments, Urban Renewal, and Good Governance

Monuments and the Nationalist Project

A "Living Museum"

Conclusion: Bamako's Monuments Beyond the Konaré Era

5 The Conflation of Heroes and Victims

The 1960s as Radical Break

The Long Shadow of the Holocaust.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: A New Memorial Archetype

A New Hybrid: The Conflation of Cemeteries and Memorials

Categories of Victims

The Persistent Need for Heroes

Memorial Museums and the Creation of Diversionary Narratives

Epilogue

Part II: Site

Give That Site Some Privacy

The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon

6 Sculptural Showdowns

Public Art in Chicago

Commemorating Haymarket

Haymarket [Police] Monument

Haymarket [Martyrs] Monument

Samuel Gompers/Gompers Park

James Connolly

Lucy Parsons and Wicker Park

Charles Gustavus Wicker

7 In the Streets Where We Live

HIV/AIDS

Women

Disability

Indigenous Culture

8 Powerlands

9 Waterworks

The Prototype and the Readymade

10 Augmented Realities

Public Space, the Networked Commons, and Public Art

Forms of Digital Public Art

Augmented Realities: Agency, Context, and Meaning Making

Part III: Audience

Practical Strategies

The Narrative of the Work Itself

The Narratives Produced by the Work: Public Pedagogy and Developing Voice

Public Art in a Post-Public World

The Political Economy of Art

Tactics, Occupations, and Beyond

Complicity with Dark Matter

Further Suggested Reading

11 Audiences Are People, Too

Dewey's Location of Art

Experience as Process

People in the Process.

People with a Future

Process is Practice

12 Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects

Imagining an Audience

Opening Doors for Others

Expanding the Artist's Role

Context at the Center

Creating Platforms

Gaining Trust through Exchange

Artist Biographies in Alphabetical Order

13 Art Administrators and Audiences

Audience as the Driving Force

Balancing Requirements

Prioritizing the Artist's Voice

14 Poll the Jury

Selecting the Jury

The Role of the Administrator

Arts Professionals on the Jury

The Parameters of Jury Obligations

The Role of the Artist

Permanent Projects: A Case Study

Temporary Projects: A Case Study

Conclusion: Additional Tips for Jurors

Postscript

15 Participatory Public Art Evaluation

Background: Researching Audience Response to Public Art

Identifying Reliable Indicators

Groundswell and Brownsville Community Justice Center:On-Site Surveying and Community Partnerships

The FIGMENT Summer-Long Interactive Sculpture Garden: On-Site Surveying and Observation by Volunteers

Interactive Technology and Public Art Evaluation

Conclusion: The Future of Participatory Public Art Evaluation

APPENDIX A: GROUNDSWELL/BROWNSVILLE COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTER MURAL SURVEY, 2013

APPENDIX B: SURVEY FROM 2012 FIGMENT SCULPTURE GARDEN

APPENDIX C: SURVEY FROM 2013 FIGMENT SCULPTURE GARDEN

Part IV: Frames

The Virtual Sphere Frame

Memory and Identity Formation

Invention and the Technological Continuum.

Political Discourse and the Public Sphere

The Elusive Frame

Interview with Tatzu Nishi

16 The Time Frame

Ephemeral Public Art as Cultural Probe and Research Machine

Transitional Democracies

Tactical Transience

Performed Ephemerality

Retail Value: Acts of Exchange

Disappearance as a Strategy

Heterotopias

17 The Memory Frame

18 The Patronage Frame

The Moses Era (1933-1965)

The Lindsay Administration (1966-1973)

Doris Freedman

Suzanne Randolph

Anita Contini

Margot Wellington

Legislating Permanence (1965-1982)

The Koch Administration (1978-1989)

Municipal Authorities (1968 to the Present)

19 The Process Frame

Vandalism: Public Art's Vulnerability

Vandalism: Treasure Taking/Treasure Making

Symbolic Vandalism

Symbolic Vandalism and Monuments to the Southern Confederacy

Symbolic Vandalism and "Semiotic Disobedience"

Vandalism: The Prada Marfa Story

Removal and Re-Siting

Destruction

Rethinking Public Art's Permanence

20 The Marketing Frame

21 The Mass Media Frame

Shared Culture, Television, and the Art of the Prank

Primetime: Melodrama Into Social Commentary

Daytime: Celebrity Into Performance Art

The End

But What Does It Mean to Practice in Public?

The Practice of Working Together

Forgetting Our Own History

Is There Such a Thing as "Public Art"?

Don't Deny It's Public Art

Index

End User License Agreement.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9781118475348

1118475348

9781118475331

111847533X

OCLC:

951977772