Public Art: a Reader by
Few topics in the visual arts have created such controversy in recent years as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art. In this new English edition of the handbook over sixty curators, art historians, and artists.
The Art of Placemaking: interpreting community through public art and urban design by
In The Art of Placemaking, Ronald Lee Fleming adopts a practical approach to tackling public art and community planning in the US as they are experienced today. Through detailed, in-depth case studies he discusses the development of placemaking initiatives since 1990, accompanying beautiful and approachable examples with constructive criticism of those he sees as less successful.
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics by
Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals, and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies. The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses, but also provides a practical understanding of social practice.
Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works - New territories - New Publics by
Percent-for-art commissions may represent the official, professionalized face of public art, but beyond the plaza--in neighborhoods, back streets, and vacant lots; in suburban hinterlands, rural villages, and remote virtual realms--another kind of art has been taking shape, one that questions the very nature and experience of the commons. Driven by artists, curators, and nonprofit organizations, these independent projects treat public space as more than an outdoor gallery. Whether temporary or permanent, guerrilla or sanctioned, object or action, such works invite us to imagine alternative ways of seeing and being while opening up new possibilities for individual and collective consciousness. When we enter their domain, public space becomes a site of resistance, a stage on which to enact experimental scenarios, and a catalyst for action--a place of both art and life.
Art and the City: A Public Art Project by
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held in Zurich, June 9-Sept. 23, 2012.
Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by
Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.