Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation. This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from different disciplines - art criticism, urban design, urban sociology, geography and critical theory - to examine the practice of art for urban public spaces, seeing public art from positions outside those of the art world to ask how it might contribute to possible urban futures. Exploring the diversity of urban politics, the functions of public space and its relation to the structures of power, the roles of professionals and users in the construction of the city, the gendering of space and the ways in which space and citizen are represented, the book explains how these issues are as relevant to architecture, urban design and urban planning as they are to public art. Drawing on a wealth of images from across the UK and Europe and the USA, in particular, the author questions the effectiveness of public art in achieving more convivial urban environments, whilst retaining the idea that imagining possible futures is as much part of a democratic society as using public space.
Author(s): Malcolm Miles
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 272
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
FIGURES......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
THE AIM OF THE BOOK......Page 9
Selected sources......Page 10
ART IN PUBLIC SPACES—AN OUTLINE OF THE TERRITORY......Page 11
Reception......Page 13
Is all art public?......Page 15
Meaning and mediation......Page 17
A context of urban crises......Page 18
Conclusion......Page 19
VIEWS OF A CITY......Page 20
Concepts and forms......Page 21
IMAGES OF THE CITY AND SOCIAL VALUE......Page 22
Urban catastrophe?......Page 23
ORDER AND APPEARANCE—THE AGORA AND THE GRID......Page 26
The agora of Athens......Page 27
Exclusion and confinement......Page 28
URBAN PLANNING......Page 29
THE ‘PLANNING GAZE’......Page 31
THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION......Page 33
An empire of signs?......Page 35
The production of space......Page 36
Gendered representations......Page 37
EXCLUSION......Page 38
A cultural exclusion zone......Page 40
STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE......Page 42
Reclamation......Page 43
ART IN THE STREETS......Page 44
THE MONUMENT AND NATIONAL IDENTITY......Page 45
AFFIRMATIVE CULTURE......Page 46
Hegemony......Page 47
Legitimate memory......Page 50
THE LANGUAGE OF ALLEGORY......Page 51
Victory and liberty......Page 52
FRAMEWORKS......Page 53
RESISTANCES AND THE DEMOCRATISATION OF THE MONUMENT......Page 55
Anti-monuments......Page 56
PROBLEMATISING PUBLIC ART......Page 60
Art and architecture?......Page 62
Art in a City......Page 64
Art Within Reach......Page 65
ADVOCACY......Page 66
CRITICISM......Page 67
Out of Order......Page 68
Histories......Page 69
AN END OF CONTRADICTIONS?......Page 70
Social zoning......Page 71
Gentrification......Page 72
Arts policy as advocacy......Page 73
CARDIFF BAY......Page 75
Birmingham......Page 76
A central cultural district?......Page 77
Sympathetic description......Page 79
Critical enquiry......Page 80
London Docklands......Page 82
SUNDERLAND......Page 83
URBAN DEVELOPMENT AS HEGEMONY......Page 85
METRO ART AND CITIES......Page 88
ART IN THE NEW YORK SUBWAY......Page 89
ART IN THE LONDON UNDERGROUND......Page 90
MODERNITY AND NOSTALGIA......Page 91
Modernity......Page 92
ART, TRANSPORT AND THE PUBLIC REALM......Page 95
A reappraisal?......Page 96
THE ROLE OF ART IN HEALTH CARE......Page 99
ART IN THE NHS NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS......Page 101
EVALUATION......Page 103
Patient-centred care......Page 105
ART AT THE END OF MODERNISM?......Page 107
ART IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST......Page 108
The Domestic Violence Milk Carton......Page 109
The Art Studios......Page 110
Art and AIDS......Page 112
CULTURAL DIVERSITY......Page 113
Art and difference......Page 114
ART BY NATIVE PEOPLES......Page 115
ECOLOGICAL HEALING......Page 117
New genre art for ecological healing......Page 118
CONCLUSION......Page 119
URBAN FUTURES......Page 121
Alternatives......Page 122
PUBLIC SPACE......Page 123
The social life of small urban spaces......Page 124
Empowerment of urban dwellers......Page 126
STRATEGIES FOR ART, CRAFT AND DESIGN......Page 129
INTERVENTION......Page 130
Sustainability?......Page 132
NOTES......Page 134
2 SPACE, REPRESENTATION AND GENDER......Page 150
5 ART IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT......Page 151
8 ART AS A SOCIAL PROCESS......Page 152
9 CONVIVIAL CITIES......Page 153
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 154
INDEX......Page 162
