Public Art (Art & Design Profile)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $9.30

  This volume looks at how artists react to the area of monumental art today, accentuating the relationship between art, politics and social activism: Miriam Rosen investiagates the potential of recent developments in communication such as Cyberspace, Superhighways and the Internet; Jeff Kastner, in an interview with Mary Jane Jacob, examines recent community-based projects in the United States and, in particular, looks at what has been termed new genre public art; and Valerie Mavidorakis considers the history of public commissions from Rodin to Serra and from Baquie to Rachel Whiteread and the infamous house.