Empty Plinths

Empty Plinths

Author: José Esparza Chong Cuy

Publisher: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780674278578

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Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and public policy proposals reveals and reframes the histories embedded within contested public spaces in Mexico.


Public Art

Public Art

Author: International Creators' Organization

Publisher: ICO Norio Mochizuki

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9784931154322

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The work of forty-two world-renowned artists, from eleven participating countries, fills this comprehensive and colourful volume. Within its pages, The International Creators' Organization transports its readers around the world on a voyage of discovery, where many treasures of great public art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are found and explored. This thoughtful and beautiful book has captured the global essence of dynamic public art, integrating art into the environment. SELLING POINTS: Showcases outstanding examples of public art from eleven participating countries - the UK, Serbia, Finland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Italy, the USA, Denmark, France, Canada and Japan Includes contributions from forty-two world-renowned artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Daniel Durn, Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Joost van Santen. 1000 colour illustrations


The Practice of Public Art

The Practice of Public Art

Author: Cameron Cartiere

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-05-07

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 113589468X

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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.


Carlos Villa

Carlos Villa

Author: Mark Dean Johnson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0520348893

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"This exhibition was organized to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)"--Acknowledgements.


Public Art

Public Art

Author: Cher Krause Knight

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2008-04-28

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Cheryl Krause Knight takes a bold look at American public art and its populist appeal, offering a guide to our creative tastes and shared culture. The text offers a refreshing alternative to the traditional rhetoric and criticism surrounding public art.


The Artist's Guide to Public Art

The Artist's Guide to Public Art

Author: Lynn Basa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1581159765

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Public art commissions--how to find them, how to get them. * First-hand advice from experienced public artists * Written by an artist for artists * Includes expert information on public art law Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public art commission. First-hand interviews with experienced public artists and arts administrators provide in-the-trenches advice and insight, and a chapter on public art law, written by Barbara Hoffman, the country's leading public art law attorney, answers questions about this complex area. Packed with details on working with contracts, conflict, controversy, communities, committees, and more, The Artist’s Guide to Public Art shows artists the way to cut through the red tape and win commissions that are rewarding both financially and artistically.


Dialogues in Public Art

Dialogues in Public Art

Author: Tom Finkelpearl

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780262561488

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Examining the changing attitudes toward the city as the site for public art.


A Companion to Public Art

A Companion to Public Art

Author: Cher Krause Knight

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1119190800

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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.