Public Art : Theory, Practice and Populism

This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art - from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates - and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts.

Cher Krause Knight is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She has published her work in Visual Resources, the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, and American Art Review, as well as in the anthologies Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives, and Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction: A Short History of the United States' "Official" Public Art	p. 1
Roosevelt's New Deal	p. 3
General Services Administration's Art-in-Architecture Program	p. 6
National Endowment for the Arts' Art-in-Public-Places Program	p. 15
Conventional Wisdom: Populist Intentions within Established Paradigms	p. 22
Art as Monument, Art as Memorial	p. 23
Art as Amenity	p. 28
Art in the Park, Art as the Park	p. 33
Art as the Agora	p. 37
Art as Pilgrimage	p. 41
Culture to Go: From Art World to The World	p. 48
What Museums Do for Us	p. 52
My Museum	p. 56
Education, Outreach, Programming	p. 62
The Alternative Museum/Alternatives to Museums	p. 70
Not Quite "Art," Not Quite "Public": Lessons from the Private Sector	p. 79
The Art of Entertainment	p. 84
This is Special, I am Special	p. 87
Open Pocketbook, Open Agenda?	p. 93
Embracing Spectacle	p. 101
Super Viewer: Increasing Individual Agency on the Public Art Front	p. 107
Power to the People	p. 111
Claiming Space and Place	p. 115
Dig In	p. 123
Conclusion: Art for All?	p. 131
The Trouble with (Re)Development	p. 132
Nonprofits and the Ephemeral Idyll	p. 137
Back to School	p. 142
Grieving Loss, Remembering Life	p. 145
Two Tales in One City	p. 150
Bibliography	p. 158
Index	p. 176
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