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. INDICE: Notes on Contributors x .Acknowledgements xviii .A Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie .Part I Traditions 13 .Introduction 15Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie .Artists Philosophies Memory Works 25Julian Bonder .Public Art? 30Antony Gormley .Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34Alan Sonfist .Memorializing the Holocaust 37James E. Young .Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51Marisa Lerer .Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor .Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93Mary Jo Arnoldi .The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107Harriet F. Senie .Part II Site 119 .Introduction 121Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie .Artists Philosophies Give That Site Some Privacy 129eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht) .The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135Caleb Neelon .Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139Eli Robb .In the Streets Where We Live 164Kate MacNeill .Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176Erika Suderburg .Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191Grant Kester .Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205Christiane Paul .Part III Audience 227 .Introduction 229Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie .Artists Philosophies .Practical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239Suzanne Lacy .Public Art in a Post ]Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245Gregory Sholette .Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251Mary Jane Jacob .Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki .Art Administrators and Audiences 285Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer .Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296Mary M. Tinti .Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310Katherine Gressel .Part IV Frames 335 .Introduction 337Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie .Artists Philosophies .The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347John Craig Freeman .The Elusive Frame: Funny, Violent, and Sexy 353 .The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359Patricia C. Phillips .The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke .The Patronage Frame: New York City s Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386Michele H. Bogart .The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re ]Siting, Destruction 403Erika Doss .The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422Jonathan Wallis .The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435Cher Krause Knight .Epilogue 457Cameron Cartiere .Index 465
- ISBN: 978-1-118-47532-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha Publicación: 16/08/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés