Martegani / Kasper / Drew More Art in the Public Eye

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7330993-2-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Presented in the context of More Art's fifteen-year history, and featuring first-person testimony, critical essays, and in-depth documentary materials, More Art in the Public Eye is an essential, experiential guide to the field of socially engaged public art and its increasing relevance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martegani, Micaela

Kasper, Jeff

Drew, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover Contents Forword: More Art’s Mission is Our Mission Preface A Practice of Public Art Adapted to the Present: Fifteen Years of More Art in New York City A History of Socially Engaged Art and the Expanded Field of Public Art Production Philanthropy and Socially Engaged Art, Today Chapter 1. Working Towards an Egalitarian Society Can a Transformative Avant-Garde Art Survive in a World of Lolcats, Doomsday Preppers, and Xenophobic Frog Memes? Do We Have a Choice? El Club de Protesta (2011) On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide (2014) 9-5 (2015) Chapter 2. American Imperialism As the New Normal Against Heroism Enemy Kitchen (2006-07) Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Project (2012) NYsferatu: Symphony of a Century (2017) Chapter 3. Me, Myself, and We Narrating Ourselves Anew AWGTHTGTWTA (2008) An Album: Hudson Guild (2009-10) When You’re Looking at Me, You’re Looking at Country (2011-12) Chapter 4. (Dis)placeCalled Home Displacement is the New Dispossession: A Word from Our Neighbors Moon Guardians (2013) Residents of New York (2014) MONTH2MONTH (2016) Where We Are Going Next, Together Methodology Crafting Your Theory of Change What Does the Future of Socially Engaged Art Look Like? Chronology of Public Projects Contributors C H P S Z

Über Autor(innen)

Micaela Martegani is Executive Director and Chief Curator of More Art and Adjunct Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts.

Jeff Kasper is Assistant Professor of Design at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Emma Drew is an independent arts writer and editor.