(Blackwell Companions to Art History) 1st Edition
by Cher Krause Knight (Editor), Harriet F. Senie (Editor)
A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale.
- Edited
by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians,
critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves
- Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks
- Covers
important topics in the field, including valorizing victims, public art
in urban landscapes and on university campuses, the role of digital
technologies, jury selection committees, and the intersection of public
art and mass media
- Contains “artist’s philosophy” essays, which
address larger questions about an artist’s body of work and the field
of public art, by Julian Bonder, eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska
Lamprecht), John Craig Freeman, Antony Gormley, Suzanne Lacy, Caleb
Neelon, Tatzu Nishi, Greg Sholette, and Alan Sonfist.
