A Companion to Public Art

A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks Covers important topics in the field, including valorizing victims, public art in urban landscapes and on university campuses, the role of digital technologies, jury selection committees, and the intersection of public art and mass media Contains “artist’s philosophy” essays, which address larger questions about an artist’s body of work and the field of public art, by Julian Bonder, eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht), John Craig Freeman, Antony Gormley, Suzanne Lacy, Caleb Neelon, Tatzu Nishi, Greg Sholette, and Alan Sonfist.

List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgements xx 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 1 Memorializing the Holocaust 37 James E. Young 2 Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51 Marisa Lerer 3 Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75 Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor 4 Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93 Mary Jo Arnoldi 5 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 6 Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139 Eli Robb 7 In the Streets Where We Live 164 Kate MacNeill 8 Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176 Erika Suderburg 9 Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191 Grant Kester 10 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 11 Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251 Mary Jane Jacob 12 Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268 Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki 13 Art Administrators and Audiences 285 Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer 14 Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296 Mary M. Tinti 15 Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310 Katherine Gressel Part IV Frames 335 Introduction 337 Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie Artists’ Philosophies The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347 John Craig Freeman The Elusive Frame: “Funny,” “Violent,” and “Sexy” 353 Tatzu Nishi 16 The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359 Patricia C. Phillips 17 The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376 Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke 18 The Patronage Frame: New York City’s Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386 Michele H. Bogart 19 The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re‐Siting, Destruction 403 Erika Doss 20 The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422 Jonathan Wallis 21 The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435 Cher Krause Knight Epilogue 457 Cameron Cartiere Index 465