What is the fate of art in an age of publicity? How has the role of
traditional public (i.e., government-owned) art changed in
contemporary culture, and how have changing conditions of public
space and mass communications altered the whole relationship
between art and its potential audiences?
With contributions from the arts, philosophy, criticism, and the
law, the thirteen essays in this volume explore the aesthetic,
social, and political dynamics that make contemporary public art so
controversial, and that that have placed recent art work at the
center of public debates.
Contributors include Vito Acconci, "Public Space in a Private
Time"; Agnes Denes, "The Dream"; W. J. T. Mitchell, "The Violence
of Public Art: "Do the Right Thing""; Ben Nicholson, "Urban
Poises"; Michael North, "The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly
City to Mass Ornament"; Barbara Kruger, in an interview with W. J.
T. Mitchell; Barbara Hoffman, "Law for Art's Sake in the Public
Realm"; Richard Serra, "Art and Censorship"; James E. Young, "The
Counter-Monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today": Charles
Griswold, "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall:
Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography"; John Hallmark
Neff, "Daring to Dream"; and David Antin and Virginia Maksymowicz.
Presenting a balance of theoretical and performative essays by both
critics and artists, this book will provide deep and discordant
analyses of contemporary public art for general readers, as well as
students and scholars of art, architecture, and public policy
related to the arts.
Most of these articles originally appeared in the journal "Critical
Inquiry."
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