A Companion to Public Art [Hardcover]

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.

Notes on Contributors x

Acknowledgements xviii

A Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie

Part I Traditions 13

Introduction 15
Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie

Artists’ Philosophies

Memory Works 25
Julian Bonder

Public Art? 30
Antony Gormley

Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34
Alan Sonfist

Memorializing the Holocaust 37
James E. Young

Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strl³©