ABSTRACT
It has been over ten years since the publication in 1995 of Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (by Bay Press, now in a third printing in English and a first in Chinese). This book, a collection of articles by artists, critics, and curators, and a compendium of artists’ work by Susan Steinman, came at the right time in a field that was attracting attention. The term new genre public art, first coined in the book, was not meant to identify a form of art so much as to pose a challenge to a discourse developing around public art during the 1980s.
