PUBLIC ART.
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Essay Subject:
Compares two views of the way public art functions.... More...
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5 Pages / 1125 Words
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Paper Abstract:
Compares two views of the way public art functions. Relationship of public art to a society. Why public art often generates controversy. Issues of cultural authority, public opinion, art communication to the public, aesthetics. The agenda of public art. Problem of public art as an aesthetic success, but social failure.
Paper Introduction:
In their essays on public art, Heather Wainwright and Ruth Slavin offer differing critiques of the ways public art functions in relationship to a society. Public art often generates controversy precisely because it is public art and so gives members of the public a sense of ownership and of veto power. It raises issues many political leaders would prefer not to have to address. It raises questions about the nature of cultural authority in a free society and about not just the function of art but how it is to be shaped and paid for in the public forum. The fact that public art is controversial has contributed to the degree to which various critics and theorists in the art world have discussed the issues raised and tried to reach some consensus on the matter, and Slavin and Wainwright address not simply the controversies raised but the ways in
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