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The Private Eye in Public Art (Hardcover)
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The Private Eye in Public Art (Hardcover)
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Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate
with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and
land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs
of the NEA and the GSA. This book foregrounds critical questions
about public art, the policies that govern it, and the processes
that realise it. What makes art public? What makes good public art?
Why is there so much bad public art? How can the overall standard
of public art be improved? What professional practices sponsor the
best art for architecture and the environment? How can the artist
selection process ensure that only superior artists are
commissioned? Aesthetic judgments are implicit in museums
exhibitions and acquisitions. Why should art in public places be
held to a lesser standard? How can myriad interests of the
community and individuals be harnessed to the higher goal of
choosing the best artists for a project. It is a central contention
of the book that despite the numerous constraints encountered in
any commission, the most excellent public art expresses and even
accentuates the personal, innovative vision of the artist.
Approaches that compromise that vision, especially those that try
to be all things to all people, inevitably diminish the dynamism
and uniqueness of the final work. In the best public art,
imagination, originality, passion, and even impulsiveness
characterises the work of those artists who, while reaching out to
a broader public, paradoxically search for new ideas often
antithetical to the rules, materialistic culture, and social
practices of the community. Many projects have demonstrated that
art that seems different, difficult, and provocative can, in time,
become familiar and comprehensible in a public setting and resonate
more effectively than conventional solutions.
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