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.
Author(s): Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 286
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis......Page 16
Part I Out of Theory......Page 20
1 Coming in from the Cold: A Public Art History......Page 22
2 Time in Place: New Genre Public Art a Decade Later......Page 33
3 Space, Place, and Site in Critical Spatial Arts Practice......Page 48
4 “Be a Crossroads”: Public Art Practice and the Cultural Hybrid......Page 71
5 Critical Spaces: Monuments and Changes......Page 81
6 Toward a Celebratory and Liberating System of Teaching Public Art......Page 106
7 A Fine Public Art & Design Education: Learning and Teaching Public Art......Page 118
8 Teaching Public Art in the Twenty-fi rst Century: An Interview with Harrell Fletcher......Page 135
Part II Into Practice......Page 146
9 The Millennium Park Effect: A Tale of Two Cities......Page 148
10 Investigating the Public Art Commissioning System: The Challenges of Making Art in Public......Page 167
11 Here and Gone: Making It Happen......Page 175
12 As Rich as Getting Lost in Venice: Sustaining a Career as an Artist in the Public Realm......Page 191
13 From Margin to Mainstream: Dyke Action Machine! Public Art and a Recent History of Lesbian Representation......Page 208
14 In the Storms of the World: Building Communities to Assist Social and Ecological Justice......Page 219
15 The Art of the Question: Thinking like a Public Artist......Page 234
Part III Mapping the Lineage......Page 244
A Timeline for the History of Public Art: The United Kingdom and the United States of America, 1900–2005......Page 246
Bibliography......Page 262
Contributors......Page 264
Index......Page 268
