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Author:   Cher Krause Knight (Emerson College) ,  Harriet F. Senie (CUNY) ,  Dana Arnold (University of Southampton)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9781118475324

ISBN 10:   1118475321
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   16 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Strategies of Resistance 51 Marisa Lerer Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75 Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93 Mary Jo Arnoldi The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107 Harriet F. Senie Part II Site 119 Introduction 121 Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies Give That Site Some Privacy 129 eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht) The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135 Caleb Neelon Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139 Eli Robb In the Streets Where We Live 164 Kate MacNeill Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176 Erika Suderburg Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191 Grant Kester Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205 Christiane Paul Part III Audience 227 Introduction 229 Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies Practical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239 Suzanne Lacy Public Art in a Post]Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245 Gregory Sholette Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251 Mary Jane Jacob Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268 Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki Art Administrators and Audiences 285 Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296 Mary M. Tinti Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310 Katherine Gressel Part IV Frames 335 Introduction 337 Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347 John Craig Freeman The Elusive Frame: “Funny,” “Violent,” and “Sexy” 353 The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359 Patricia C. Phillips The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376 Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke The Patronage Frame: New York City’s Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386 Michele H. Bogart The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re]Siting, Destruction 403 Erika Doss The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422 Jonathan Wallis The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435 Cher Krause Knight Epilogue 457 Cameron Cartiere Index 465

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Cher Krause Knight is Professor of Art History at Emerson College, USA. She is the author of Power and Paradise in Walt Disney’s World (2014); and Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Knight is the co-founder of Public Art Dialogue, an international professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary critical forum for the field. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Public Art Dialogue, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to public art, with Harriet F. Senie.  Harriet F. Senie is Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. programin art history and the art museum studies track at City University, New York, USA. She also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 (2015); Dangerous Precedent? The `Tilted Arc' Controversy (2001); and Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy (1992).She is co-editor of Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (1992, revised edition 1998), and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Public Art Dialogue, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to public art, with Cher Krause Knight.

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