Dialogues in public art : interviews with Vito Acconci, John Ahearn ... /

"Dialogues in Public Art presents a blend of interviews with the people who create and experience public art - from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led the fight to have them removed; from an artist who describes his work as a "cancer&...

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Main Author: Finkelpearl, Tom
Other Authors: Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Four controversies in public art. Douglas Crimp on Tilted arc ; John Ahearn on the Bronx bronzes and Happier tales ; Arthur Symes: Fighting the Bronx bronzes ; Maya Lin: Landscapes and memorials ; David Avilos, Louise Hock, and Elizabeth Sisco on Welcome to America's finest tourist plantation
  • II. Four experiments in public art as architecture and urban planning. Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi on Art in architecture ; Vito Acconci on Art, architecture, Arvada and StoreFront ; Linnea Glatt and Michael Singer on Designing the Phoenix Solid Waste Management Facility ; Ron Jensen on Commissioning the Phoenix Solid Waste Management Facility ; Rick Lowe on Designing Project Row houses ; Assata Shakur on Living in Project Row houses
  • III. Five dialogues on dialogue-based public art projects. Paulo Freire: Discussing dialogue ; Mierle Laderman Ukeles on Maintenance and sanitation art ; Jagoda Przybylak on Alien staff ; Krzysztof Wodiczko on Alien staff ; Kristen Jones and Andrew on Mnemonics
  • IV. Two efforts in public art for public health. Mei Chin on Revival Field ; Dr. Rufus L. Chaney on Revival Field ; Frank Moore on the AIDS ribbon ; Jackie McLean on Making the AIDS ribbon at the Artist and Homeless Collaborative.