The Private Eye in Public Art
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2023
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-957183-15-2 (ISBN)
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-957183-15-2 (ISBN)
Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA. This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies that govern it, and the processes that realise it. What makes art public? What makes good public art? Why is there so much bad public art? How can the overall standard of public art be improved? What professional practices sponsor the best art for architecture and the environment? How can the artist selection process ensure that only superior artists are commissioned? Aesthetic judgments are implicit in museums exhibitions and acquisitions. Why should art in public places be held to a lesser standard? How can myriad interests of the community and individuals be harnessed to the higher goal of choosing the best artists for a project.
It is a central contention of the book that despite the numerous constraints encountered in any commission, the most excellent public art expresses and even accentuates the personal, innovative vision of the artist. Approaches that compromise that vision, especially those that try to be all things to all people, inevitably diminish the dynamism and uniqueness of the final work. In the best public art, imagination, originality, passion, and even impulsiveness characterises the work of those artists who, while reaching out to a broader public, paradoxically search for new ideas often antithetical to the rules, materialistic culture, and social practices of the community. Many projects have demonstrated that art that seems different, difficult, and provocative can, in time, become familiar and comprehensible in a public setting and resonate more effectively than conventional solutions.
It is a central contention of the book that despite the numerous constraints encountered in any commission, the most excellent public art expresses and even accentuates the personal, innovative vision of the artist. Approaches that compromise that vision, especially those that try to be all things to all people, inevitably diminish the dynamism and uniqueness of the final work. In the best public art, imagination, originality, passion, and even impulsiveness characterises the work of those artists who, while reaching out to a broader public, paradoxically search for new ideas often antithetical to the rules, materialistic culture, and social practices of the community. Many projects have demonstrated that art that seems different, difficult, and provocative can, in time, become familiar and comprehensible in a public setting and resonate more effectively than conventional solutions.
Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz is a curator and public art consultant specialising in public art policy, contemporary art commissions for architecture and landscape projects, implementation of arts master plans, and integration of public art into the broader concepts of urban revitalisation and cultural planning.
Acknowledgments 10
Foreword by Eleanor Heartney 12
PROLOGUE 17
I PROFILE 21
II PERSPECTIVE 33
III POINT OF VIEW 79
IV PROCESS AND PRACTICE 103
V PROJECTS 123
POSTSCRIPT 259
Notes 266
Photo credits 270
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 200 Illustrations, color |
Verlagsort | San Rafael |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 229 x 279 mm |
Gewicht | 1532 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-957183-15-2 / 1957183152 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-957183-15-2 / 9781957183152 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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