Dialogues in Public Art

by Tom Finkelpearl

• ISBN13: 9780262561488
• ISBN10: 0262561484
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Now public artists might design the entire plaza, create an event to alter the social dynamics of an urban environment, or help to reconstruct a neighborhood. Dialogues in Public Artpresents a rich blend of interviews with the people who create and experience public art-from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led the fight to have them removed; from an artist who describes his work as a "cancer" on architecture to a pair of architects who might agree with him; from an artist who formed a coalition to convert twenty-two derelict row houses into an art center/community revitalization project to a young woman who got her life back on track while living in one of the converted houses. The twenty interviews are divided into four parts: Controversies in Public Art, Experiments in Public Art as Architecture and Urban Planning, Dialogues on Dialogue-Based Public Art Projects, and Public Art for Public Health. Tom Finkelpearl's introductory essay provides a concise overview of changing attitudes toward the city as the site of public art. This book includes interviews with Vito Acconci, John Ahearn, David Avalos, Denise Scott Brown, Rufus L. Chaney, Mel Chin, Douglas Crimp, Paulo Freire, Andrew Ginzel, Linnea Glatt, Louis Hock, Ron Jensen, Kristin Jones, Maya Lin, Rick Lowe, Jackie McLean, Frank Moore, Jagoda Przybylak, Assata Shakur, Michael Singer, Elizabeth Sisco, Arthur Symes, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Robert Venturi, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The City as Site	p. 2
Four controversies in Public Art	p. 52
Titled Arc	p. 60
The Bronx Bronzes and Happier Tales	p. 80
Fighting the Bronx Bronzes	p. 102
Landscapes and Memorials	p. 110
On Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation	p. 126
Four Experiments in Public Art as Architecture and Urban Planning	p. 148
On Art in Architecture	p. 154
On Art, Architecture, Arvada, and StoreFront	p. 172
On Designing the Phoenix Solid Waste Management Facility	p. 196
On Commissioning the Phoenix Solid Waste Management Facility	p. 220
On Designing Project Row Houses	p. 234
On Living in Project Row Houses	p. 258
Five Dialogues on Dialogue-Based Public Art Projects	p. 270
Discussing Dialogue	p. 276
On Maintenance and Sanitation Art	p. 294
On Alien Staff	p. 324
On Alien Staff	p. 336
On Mnemonics	p. 352
Two Efforts in Public Art for Public Health	p. 378
on Revival Field	p. 384
On Revival field	p. 408
On the AIDS Ribbon	p. 418
On Making the AIDS Ribbon at the Artist and Homeless Collaborative	p. 438
Index	p. 446
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