Full Description
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
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xx
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
1 Memorializing the Holocaust 37
James E. Young
2 Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51
Marisa Lerer
3 Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75
Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor
4 Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93
Mary Jo Arnoldi
5 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
6 Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139
Eli Robb
7 In the Streets Where We Live 164
Kate MacNeill
8 Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176
Erika Suderburg
9 Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191
Grant Kester
10 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
11 Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251
Mary Jane Jacob
12 Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268
Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki
13 Art Administrators and Audiences 285
Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer
14 Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296
Mary M. Tinti
15 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
Tatzu Nishi
16 The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359
Patricia C. Phillips
17 The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376
Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke
18 The Patronage Frame: New York City's Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386
Michele H. Bogart
19 The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re-Siting, Destruction 403
Erika Doss
20 The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422
Jonathan Wallis
21 The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435
Cher Krause Knight
Epilogue 457
Cameron Cartiere
Index 465
