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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"public art"”.
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RE/placing public art: the role of place specificity in new genre public art
… placespecificity within the field of new genre public art. Over the last several years the term place-specificity and its variance, place-specific has occurred frequently in art reviews and exhibition catalogues particularly in relation to installations, permanent public art works, and public …
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Public Art: A Critical Approach
… I provide a philosophical analysis of public art. I focus on its "publicness," and draw implications at the level of public art's ontology, appreciation, and value. I uphold the view that an artwork is public when received within a public sphere rather than within artworld institutions. …
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Pismo Beach Public Art Program
<p>Public art plays a significant role in communities around the world. It embodies a close relationship between the artist, the space in which it’s being exhibited, and the public. The development of this project examined various literary sources that demonstrated the importance of public art and …
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Collaborative public art making: The tapestry project
… construct, and exhibit a work of collaborative public art in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a small rural community in Western Oklahoma. Utilizing autoethnography and autobiography, I reexamine and reflect using the photos, video, and personal documentation journals, the challenges, successes, and the …
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The value of public art in landscape architecture
To design spaces for public art has become an increasingly difficult exercise due to the constant shifts in the public's social behaviour and attitude towards art. This is exacerbated by the fact that the discipline of art is so unique and diverse it is almost impossible to find a commonly …
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Public Art: Context & Process in San Luis Obispo, CA
<p>Public spaces are noted by historians, philosophers, planners, etc as being the lifeblood of civic centers, spaces that bring people in community together for a myriad of reasons. Recalling the ancient Agricola’s of ancient Greece to the modern version of malls and pedestrian plazas, these …
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The American Public Art Museum: Formation of its Prevailing Attitudes
The history of the art museum's growth in America is presented in this thesis to place the development of the public art museum in the proper context. The museum has absorbed its sense of worth and power from the people who shaped its policy and believed in its ability to accomplish positive feats. …
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Government support of public art : private art or artistic heritage
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
… as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art starting in the 1960s …
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Springdale, Arkansas Public Art and Its Impact on Diverse Community Members
… exists on topics such as Springdale, Arkansas’ public art, the impactful qualities of public art as defined by members of the public, and how the public art may change individuals’ navigation of and interactions within public spaces. This qualitative research used purposive interviews with …
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The tilted trajectory of public art : New York City, 1979 - 2005
… the relationship between urban planning and public art, and questions the efficacy of past and current models, whilst pushing us to develop new ones. It strives to glean the most salient issues universal to all instances of public art, and uses four case studies to illuminate such issues in …
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Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation: Public Art And the Marketing of Philadelphia
… in its methodology: archival research, participant observation, interviews, visual and audio documentation, web site analysis of the Mural Arts Program's public transcript, and documentation of contemporary media coverage of the MAP and tourism related economic strategies. Over the course …
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Public art in Massachusetts : an analysis of municipal-based practices and approaches
… exists a wide disparity between municipal-based public art programs. Mid to large sized cities typically have public art commissions, percent for art ordinances and various programs with full-time, internal staff. Programs in smaller-sized cities vary immensely, many having lower capacity, …
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ART AT THE AIRPORT AND THE INTERSECTION OF PUBLIC ART AND PUBLIC HISTORY
This thesis is a study of the intersection of public art and public history in Philadelphia. This project looks at Philadelphia based case studies to see how the intersection of public art and public history can bring in new audiences, act as a form of advertisement, and shape interactive …
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The Chicano Mural Movement of the Southwest: Populist Public Art and Chicano Political Activism
This work examines an art movement that was a direct outgrowth of a populist civil rights movement of the late 1960’s in the Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to …
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Public Art Between Authoritarianism and Democracy (The Case of the Maidan Protest in Ukraine)
… thesis explores the spatial organization and public art of Kyiv’s Independence Square to address broader social and political realities after the Maidan protests of 2013-14. Using theories of power and ideology, this study demonstrates how the discourse on public art reflects the political …
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Not on The Plaza: Critical Strategies for Object-based Public Art in New York
… thesis addresses the research questions – why is public art concentrated in certain zones of New York? What is the publicness of public art? What models might exist for a civic and critically engaged object-based public art in New York? Currently, little research exists that examines the reasoning …
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Becoming otherwise: two thousand and ten reasons to live in a small town
… seen a 'cultural turn' in urban planning, and public art has become an important component within urban design strategies. Accordingly, public art is most commonly encountered in the urban literature as commissioned public sculptures. Simultaneously operating are a range of critical, …
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