Description
This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Section One: Out of Theory
- Cameron Cartiere (Birkbeck College, University of London): Coming in from the Cold: a Public Art History
- Suzanne Lacy (Otis College of Art and Design): New Genre Public Art a Decade Later
- Jane Rendell (University College, London): ‘Space, Place and Site in Critical Spatial Arts Practice’
- Maggie Adamek (University of Minnesota) and Karl Lorenz (University of Minnesota): ‘Public Art and the Contest of Democratic Space’
- Malcolm Miles (University of Plymouth): 'Critical Spaces: Memorials and Reparations, Memories and Changes'
- Declan McGonagle (University of Ulster): Defining the Public in Public Art
- PLATFORM: Public Art as ‘Slow Activism’
- Shelly Willis (University of Minnesota): Restructuring the System – Commissioning Public Art
- Terri Cohn (San Francisco Art Institute): As Rich as Getting Lost in Venice: Sustaining a Career as a Public Artist Andrew Leicester, Buster Simpson, John Roloff, Agnes Denes
- Stephanie Johnson (California State University, Monteray Bay): Teaching public art practice USA
- Faye Carey (Chelsea College of Art and Design, London): Teaching public art practice UK
- Carrie Moyer (DAM!): Public Art for a Political Audience -- From Margin to Mainstream: Dyke Action Machine!
- Regina Flanagan (Landscape Architect, St. Paul Minnesota): The Sometimes Uneasy Relationship Between Public Art and Urban Design
- Kristin Calhoun (Public Art Manager, Portland, Oregon): Supporting Temporary Public Art
- Thinking Like a Public Artist: Interviews & Manifestos --, Siah Armajani's, Group Material, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Harrell Fletcher, Ben Rubin, Janet Zweig and Mark Dion
Section Two: Into Practice
Section Three: Public Art History Timeline
