Art and the Public Sphere

Name: Art and the Public Sphere
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ISBN: 9780226532110

ISBN-10: 0226532119

ISBN-13: 9780226532110

Edition: 1992

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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What is the fate of art in an age of publicity? How has the role of traditional public (i.e., government-owned) art changed in contemporary culture, and how have changing conditions of public space and mass communications altered the whole relationship between art and its potential audiences? With contributions from the arts, philosophy, criticism, and the law, the thirteen essays in this volume explore the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics that make contemporary public art so controversial, and that that have placed recent art work at the center of public debates. Contributors include Vito Acconci, "Public Space in a Private Time"; Agnes Denes, "The Dream"; W. J. T. Mitchell,…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.



Public Space in a Private Time, Vito Acconci


The Dream, Agnes Denes


The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing



Urban Poises



The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly City to Mass Ornament, Michael North,Barbara Hoffman, Law for Art's Sake in the Public Realm


An interview



Art and Censorship



The Counter-Monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today



The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography



Daring to Dream