Contemporary Public Sculpture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Public Sculpture write by Harriet Senie. This book was released on 1992. Contemporary Public Sculpture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the twentieth century, public sculpture has changed almost beyond recognition. Works inspired by classical and Renaissance traditions - imposing equestrian monuments and triumphal arches - have been replaced by works such as Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin and Christo's Running Fence. This break from tradition has led to radically different approaches to public sculpture - but not without bitter controversy within both the art community and the general public. Contemporary Public Sculpture offers the first comprehensive look at this highly diverse and often controversial branch of modern art. Beginning with the revival of public sculpture in the 1960s, with the work of Picasso, Calder, Moore, Nevelson, and others, Senie traces the developments that defined a new civic art: one which substituted the artist's fame for public content and sparked debates about cost, the role of government, and the place of public art in a democratic society. She shows how the growing irrelevance of traditional memorials resulted in a new approach to the genre defined by Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, which set out to "heal a nation" rather than glorify a military event by honoring victims rather than heroes; and how dissatisfaction with modern "glass box" architecture and its surrounding barren urban spaces led architectural firms like Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill to use art to enliven both. Senie discusses how the earthworks of Robert Smithson and others inspired public sculpture that brought various landscape elements into urban sites; and she explores works by George Sugarman and Scott Burton that combine sculpture and furniture, changing the very idea of public art by creating a stage for publiclife. Finally, she examines the controversies that arise when citizens (including the press and politicians) confront publicly funded work - such as Joel Shapiro's "Headless Gumby" or Serra's Tilted Arc - that defies their sense of what public sculpture should be. Illustrated with over one hundred halftones, this overview of contemporary public sculpture provides a clear understanding of why it is there, why it looks the way it does, and what is really at stake in the continuing public art controversy.
The Everyday Practice of Public Art
The Everyday Practice of Public Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everyday Practice of Public Art write by Cameron Cartiere. This book was released on 2015-11-19. The Everyday Practice of Public Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and Willis), and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists, curators, activists, writers and educators from North America, Europe and Australia, who offer divergent perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The collection examines the continual evolution of public art, moving beyond monuments and memorials to examine more fully the development of socially-engaged public art practice. Topics include constructing new models for developing and commissioning temporary and performance-based public artworks; understanding the challenges of a socially-engaged public art practice vs. social programming and policymaking; the social inclusiveness of public art; the radical developments in public art and social practice pedagogy; and unravelling the relationships between public artists and the communities they serve. The Everyday Practice of Public Art offers a diverse perspective on the increasingly complex nature of artistic practice in the public realm in the twenty-first century.
Dialogues in Public Art
Dialogues in Public Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialogues in Public Art write by Tom Finkelpearl. This book was released on 2000. Dialogues in Public Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the changing attitudes toward the city as the site for public art.
The Practice of Public Art
The Practice of Public Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practice of Public Art write by Cameron Cartiere. This book was released on 2008-05-07. The Practice of Public Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mapping the Terrain
Mapping the Terrain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Terrain write by Suzanne Lacy. This book was released on 1995. Mapping the Terrain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.
