This book provides insight into the significant area of public art
and memorials in Berlin. Through diverse selected examples, grouped
according to their basic character and significance, the most
important art projects produced in the period since World War II
are presented and discussed. Both as a critical theoretical work
and rich photo book, this volume is a unique selection of Berlin's
diverse visual elements, contemporary and from the recent past.
Some artworks are very famous and are already symbols of Berlin
while others are less well known. Public Art and Urban Memorials in
Berlin analyzes the connections created by public art on one hand,
and urban space and architectural forms on the other. This volume
considers the Berlin works of iconic artists such as Christo and
Jeanne-Claude, Daniel Libeskind, Dani Karavan, Bernar Venet, Keith
Haring, Christian Boltanski, Richard Serra, Peter Eisenman, Henry
Moore, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Wolf Vostell,
Gerhard Richter, Eduardo Chillida, Jonathan Borofsky, Olaf Metzel,
Sol LeWitt, Frank Gehry, Max Lingner, Bernhard Heiliger, Frank
Thiel, Juan Garaizabal and more. The reader is led through seven
chapters: Creative City Berlin, Introduction to Public Art, Public
Art in Berlin, the Celebration of Berlin's 750th Anniversary in
1987, Temporary public art, Socialist Realism in Art, and Urban
Memorials. The chapter Public Art in Berlin discusses selected
projects, Bundestag Public Art Collection, Public Art at Potsdamer
Platz and The City and the river - a renewed relationship. The
chapter on urban memorials discusses: Remembering the Divided City
and Holocaust Memorials in Berlin. The book delivers nine
interviews with artists whose Berlin work is revealed through this
volume (Bernar Venet, Hubertus von der Goltz, Dani Karavan, Juan
Garaizabal, Susanne Lorenz, Kalliopi Lemos, Frank Thiel, Karla
Sachse and Nikolaus Koliusis).
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