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The
resources and links on this page provide information and advice on several
topics. The items covered include links to sites of interest when considering
what has been done in the field, a short list of relevant publications.
What resources
are required to plan and launch a public arts project? What do you need
to know about financing, funding, management, artist selection, public art
theory and practice, exhibition, artwork maintenance and community involvement?
This section provides an overview of web links, suggestions for how to select
an artist, and informal advice from a 'noviceš who has learned as she has
gone about the function, development and impact of public arts initiatives.
This element of the site will be periodically updated with additional resources,
commentary from program participants and web-surfers, and new ideas.
Recommended Books:
Public
Art: Kunst im Offentlichen Raum
Hatje Cantz, Florian Matzner ed., Distributed in the U.S. by D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 2001 A comprehensive resource covering the contemporary public art scene in Europe with many essays from U.S. artists. The core of the book is comprised of essays on public art form many artists. The essays are in English and German. The book covers public art practice in all of its many forms from city/park/plaza to social and political issues driven. A thought provoking work.
Dialogues
in Public Art
Tom Finkelpearl, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2000 Interviews and dialogues with critics and public artists make-up the bulk of this important work. In it you will find reviews of controversial projects and discussoin of the role of public art as facilitator of social change. Several projects are discussed. There is a helpful section on dialogue-based public art projects.
Creative
Community: The Art of Cultural Development
Don Adam, Arlene Goldbard, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. 2001 This publication of the Rockefeller Foundation Creativity & Culture Division is essentially a field guide to the role ofpublic art in fostering community transformation and engagement. It has sections on history and theory as well as best practices and where the field is headed.
The
Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
Lucy Lippard, New Press, April 1998 Art contextualized by an exploration of the local. This book provides a wealth of examples of how to think and work in an increasingly diverse environment with conflicting/contested meanings of palce.
Mapping
the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
Suzanne Lacy, Bay Press, Seattle Wa.1995 This book provides an excellent introduction to public art as a practice of engaged experiementation with a focus on understanding and crafting social meaning. Artists dealing within community and institutional contexts on the greater issues of our time.
Siah
Armajani
Villa Arson, Nice, National Centre for Contemporary Art, 1994. SIah Armajani is a seminal artist and theoretician of the public art movement. This publication reviews his work and hosts several eassys on public art.
Going
Public: a field guide to art in public places
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Pam Korza; edited by Pam Korza. Published in cooperation with the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. 1988. Despite its publication date, this book remains the work on "how to..." a public arts project. There are several case studies and examples of documents to facilitate projects.
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