A Companion to Public Art

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

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.