Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xviii
A Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Part I Traditions 13
Introduction 15Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists’ Philosophies Memory Works 25Julian Bonder
Public Art? 30Antony Gormley
Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34Alan Sonfist
Memorializing the Holocaust 37James E. Young
Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51Marisa Lerer
Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor
Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93Mary Jo Arnoldi
The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107Harriet F. Senie
Part II Site 119
Introduction 121Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists’ Philosophies Give That Site Some Privacy 129eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht)
The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135Caleb Neelon
Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139Eli Robb
In the Streets Where We Live 164Kate MacNeill
Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176Erika Suderburg
Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191Grant Kester
Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205Christiane Paul
Part III Audience 227
Introduction 229Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists’ Philosophies
Practical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239Suzanne Lacy
Public Art in a Post-Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245Gregory Sholette
Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251Mary Jane Jacob
Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki
Art Administrators and Audiences 285Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer
Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296Mary M. Tinti
Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310Katherine Gressel
Part IV Frames 335
Introduction 337Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie
Artists’ Philosophies
The Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347John Craig Freeman
The Elusive Frame: “Funny,” “Violent,” and “Sexy” 353
The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359Patricia C. Phillips
The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke
The Patronage Frame: New York City’s Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386Michele H. Bogart
The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re-Siting, Destruction 403Erika Doss
The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422Jonathan Wallis
The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435Cher Krause Knight
Epilogue 457Cameron Cartiere
Index 465