ABSTRACT
This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art.
It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices, while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices, as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes.
This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, urban studies, and museum studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|8 pages
Introduction
part II|70 pages
Activation
part III|61 pages
Social Justice
chapter 8|13 pages
Art as Protest
chapter 11|9 pages
Quiet Gestures, Gift Exchange, and Public Formations
part IV|90 pages
Memory and Identity
chapter 13|12 pages
Suspended Memory
chapter 18|13 pages
The Imaginary Institution of Place
chapter 20|12 pages
Public Art, Gentrification, and the Preservation of Black and Brown Urban Identity
part V|102 pages
Ecology
chapter 26|10 pages
A Compass Rose for the Anthropocene
chapter 27|15 pages
In the Time of Art with Policy
chapter 28|18 pages
The Harrisons’ Practice in the Context of Global Environmental Policy and Politics from the 1960s to 2019
part VI|31 pages
Mapping Social Change