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The Practice of Public Art

Edited by Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis

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About the Book

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cameron Cartiere and Shelly Willis

Part I: Out of Theory

    1. Coming in from the Cold: a Public Art History

      2. Cameron Cartiere

    2. Time in Place: New Genre Public Art a Decade Later

      3. Suzanne Lacy

    3. Space, Place and Site in Critical Spatial Arts Practice

      4. Jane Rendell

    4. "Be a Crossroads": Public Art Practice and the Cultural Hybrid

      5. Margaret Adamek and Karl Lorenz

    5. Critical Spaces -- Monuments and Changes

      6. Malcolm Miles

    6. Toward a Celebratory and Liberating System of

      7. Teaching Public Art

      Stephanie Johnson

    7. A Fine Public Art & Design Education:

      8. Learning and Teaching Public Art

      Faye Carey

    8. Pubic Art and Education: an interview

      9. with Harrell Fletcher

      Shelly Willis

      Part II: Into Practice

    9. The Millennium Park Effect: A Tale of Two Cities

      10. Regina Flanagan

    10. Investigating the Public Art Commissioning System: The Challenges of Making Art in Public

      11. Shelly Willis

    11. Here and Gone: Making it Happen

      12. Kristin Calhoun and Peggy Kendellen

    12. As Rich as Getting Lost in Venice:

      13. Sustaining a Career as a Public Artist in the Public Realm

      Terri Cohn

    13. From Margin to Mainstream: Dyke Action Machine!

      14. Public Art and a Recent History of Lesbian Representation

      Carrie Moyer

    14. In the Storms of the World: Building Communities to Assist Social and Ecological Justice

      15. PLATFORM: James Marriott

    15. The Art of the Question: Thinking Like a Public Artist

      16. Anonymous

      Part 3: Mapping the Lineage

    16. A Timeline for the History of Public Art

The United Kingdom and the United States of America, 1900 – 2005

Cameron Cartiere, Rosemary Shirley, and Shelly Willis

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Index

About the Author(s)

Cameron Cartiere is a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London in the department of Arts Policy & Management. She has lectured extensively on public art issues and contemporary art practice and is the co-author of The Manifesto of Possibilities, a guide for the commissioning of public art in urban environments.

Shelly Willis is the Director of the City of Sacramento Public Art Program. She has managed public art projects and programs for more than 20 years.