A Companion to Public Art (Blackwell Companions to Art History)

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. Part I : Traditions -- Memory Works / Julian Bonder -- Public Art? / Antony Gormley -- Natural Phenomena As Public Monuments / Alan Sonfist -- Memorializing The Holocaust / James E. Young -- Chilean Memorials To The Disappeared : Symbolic Reparations And Strategies Of Resistance / Marisa Lerer -- Modern Mural Painting In The United States : Shaping Spaces/shaping Publics / Sally Webster And Sylvia Rhor -- Locating History In Concrete And Bronze : Civic Monuments In Bamako, Mali / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- The Conflation Of Heroes And Victims : A New Memorial Paradigm / Harriet F. Senie -- Part Ii : Site -- Give That Site Some Privacy / Eteam (hajoe Moderegger And Franziska Lamprecht -- The Grandiose Artistic Vision Of Caleb Neelon / Caleb Neelon -- Sculptural Showdowns : (re)siting And (mis)remembering In Chicago / Eli Robb -- In The Streets Where We Live / Kate Macneill -- Powerlands : Land Art As Retribution And Reclamation / Erika Suderburg -- Waterworks : Politics, Public Art, And The University Campus / Grant Kester -- Augmented Realities : Digital Art In The Public Sphere / Christiane Paul -- Part Iii : Audience -- Practical Strategies : Framing Narratives For Public Pedagogies / Suzanne Lacy -- Public Art In A Post-public World : Complicity With Dark Matter / Gregory Sholette -- Audiences Are People, Too : Social Art Practice As Lived Experience / Mary Jane Jacob -- Contextualizing The Public In Social Practice Projects / Jennifer Mcgregor And Renee Piechocki -- Art Administrators And Audiences / Charlotte Cohen And Wendy Feuer -- Poll The Jury : The Role Of The Panelist In Public Art / Mary M. Tinti -- Participatory Public Art Evaluation : Approaches To Researching Audience Response / Katherine Gressel -- Part Iv : Frames -- The Virtual Sphere Frame : Toward A New Ontology And Epistemology / John Craig Freeman -- The Elusive Frame : Funny, Violent, And Sexy / Tatzu Nishi --^ The Time Frame : Encounters With Ephemeral Public Art / Patricia C. Phillips -- The Memory Frame : Set In Stone, A Dialogue / Amanda Douberley An Paul Druecke -- The Patronage Frame : New York City's Mayors And The Support Of Public Art / Michele H. Bogart -- The Process Frame : Vandalism, Removal, Re-siting, Destruction / Erika Doss -- The Marketing Frame : Online Corporate Communities And Artistic Intervention / Jonathan Wallis -- The Mass Media Frame : Pranking, Soap Operas, And Public Art / Cher Krause Knight -- Epilogue / Cameron Cartiere. Edited By Cher Krause Knight And Harriet F. Senie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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.

__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.