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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.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xviii
A Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Part I Traditions 13
Introduction 15
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists' Philosophies
Memory Works 25
Julian Bonder
Public Art? 30
Antony Gormley
Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34
Alan Sonfist
Memorializing the Holocaust 37
James E. Young
Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51
Marisa Lerer
Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75
Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor
Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93
Mary Jo Arnoldi
The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107
Harriet F. Senie
Part II Site 119
Introduction 121
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists' Philosophies
Give That Site Some Privacy 129
eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht)
The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135
Caleb Neelon
Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139
Eli Robb
In the Streets Where We Live 164
Kate MacNeill
Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176
Erika Suderburg
Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191
Grant Kester
Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205
Christiane Paul
Part III Audience 227
Introduction 229
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists' Philosophies
Practical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239
Suzanne Lacy
Public Art in a Post?]Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245
Gregory Sholette
Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251
Mary Jane Jacob
Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268
Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki
Art Administrators and Audiences 285
Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer
Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296
Mary M. Tinti
Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310
Katherine Gressel
Part IV Frames 335
Introduction 337
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists' Philosophies
The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347
John Craig Freeman
The Elusive Frame: "Funny," "Violent," and "Sexy" 353
The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359
Patricia C. Phillips
The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376
Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke
The Patronage Frame: New York City's Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386
Michele H. Bogart
The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re?]Siting, Destruction 403
Erika Doss
The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422
Jonathan Wallis
The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435
Cher Krause Knight
Epilogue 457
Cameron Cartiere
Index 465
About the author
Cher Krause Knight is Professor of Art History at Emerson College, USA. She is the author of
Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World (2014); and
Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Knight is the co-founder of Public Art Dialogue, an international professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary critical forum for the field. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal
Public Art Dialogue, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to public art, with Harriet F. Senie.
Harriet F. Senie is Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. programin art history and the art museum studies track at City University, New York, USA. She also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of
Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 (2015);
Dangerous Precedent? The `Tilted Arc' Controversy (2001); and
Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy (1992).She is co-editor of
Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (1992, revised edition 1998), and co-founder and co-editor of the journal
Public Art Dialogue, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to public art, with Cher Krause Knight.
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.
