The Ambiguity of Repose: Sculpture and the Public Art of W. B. Yeats

ELH ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael North
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
The Public

Remembering How to Forget: An Artist's Exploration of Sound

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 65-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scanner
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Cellular Phone ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
The Public ◽  
Electronic Sound ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Digital Landscape

This article is an introduction to the work of electronic sound artist Scanner, which explores the place of memory, the cityscape and the relationship between the public and the private within contemporary sound art. Beginning with a historical look at his CD releases a decade ago, the article explores his move from his cellular phone works to his more collaborative digital projects in recent times. With descriptions of several significant performance works, public art commissions and film soundtrack work, the piece explores the resonances and meanings with the ever-changing digital landscape of a contemporary sound artist.

Lowercase Strategies in Public Sound Art: celebrating the transient audience

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Batchelor
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Acoustic Ecology ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
A Site

Public art invariably involves the drawing of individuals into the roles of audience and participant by virtue of it being in the public domain – in public places where those individuals are getting on with their everyday lives. As such, a large proportion of the ‘audience’ is an unwitting one, subjected to the art rather than subscribing to it. This is equally true of public sound art, where response to an intervention may vary from engagement to non-engagement to indifference to unawareness, along with a variety of transitional states between. This essay seeks to investigate this ambiguous territory in public sound art, proposing it both as an area rich in possibility for creative exploration and as a means by which artists may reveal and encourage sensitivity to the existing characteristics of a site (thus accommodating the pursuit of agendas relating to acoustic ecology). In particular it investigates and presents a case for the use of lowercase strategies in sound art as ways in which the public might be invited into a dialogue with works (invitation rather than imposition) and thus empowered as partakers of public sound art.

Encountering public art: monumental breasts and the Skywhale

2018 ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Alison Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Affective Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Hot Air

This chapter is grounded in the idea that more visual imagery of breastfeeding will contribute to its normalisation, and counter the commercial sexualisation of breasts. It suggests, however, that this strategy is not just about seeing but also about feeling. To demonstrate this the chapter turns to a controversial piece of public art — Patricia Piccinini's Skywhale — which was launched in Australia in 2013 and has been touring internationally. The Skywhale is a hot-air balloon in the shape of a fantastical creature of the imagination, which features five giant breasts on each side. This unexpected flying mammal provokes responses wherever it goes, and arguably provides productive ways of engaging public responses to breastfeeding and maternity. This chapter examines responses to Skywhale through broadsheet and social media, and then analyses its affective domain through psychoanalytic concepts and its materiality through the tradition of public art and monuments. The extremes of intimacy and monumentality configured through Skywhale offer an object par excellence for seeing breastfeeding writ large in the public domain, and for feeling the return of the maternal. The chapter argues that this is fundamental to a shift in perceiving breasts as maternal, and breastfeeding as normative.

Public Art and Contemporary Urban Culture – Research of Embodiment of Core Value of Urban Public Art in the Construction of Urban Culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 919-921 ◽  
pp. 1634-1637
Author(s):  
Zhi Guo Li ◽  
Jing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
City Image ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Core Value ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

As the cultural interpretation and the most intuitionist expression vector, urban public art explain the urban space morphology, aesthetic function by the visual art, construct contemporary aesthetic culture and the public service system of the masses, manifest characteristics of urban culture value and the trend in period of social transition increasingly. It explained the relationship between public art and urban culture core value and construction of Public art in city culture construction in detail. In the end, it presented the realization of culture value taken from public art and the creation of city image by public art.

Public art libraries and artists and designers: a symbiotic scheme for success

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Dane
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Career Opportunities

The inter-relationship between art librarians and artists/designers in the public library sector in America has been a reality since the early 20th century when libraries were organized into subject departments. This specialized clientele is eclectic and ranges from novices to the most accomplished artists and includes architects, art directors, illustrators, calligraphers, craftspeople and photographers in addition to painters, sculptors and graphic artists. Materials and services in public art libraries are highly diversified and the literature of other disciplines is also readily available. The increase in art exhibitions and special collections is noted in addition to a new focus on information for career opportunities, art law and the handicapped. Current developments set the stage for the continuing symbiotic relationship between public art librarians and artists/designers into the 21st century.

scholarly journals When Public Art Goes Bad: Two Competing Features of Public Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Willard
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Work ◽  
A Site ◽  
Compare And Contrast

AbstractNot all public art is bad art, but when public art is bad, it tends to be bad in an identifiable way. In this paper, I develop a Waltonian theory of the category of public art, according to which public art standardly is both accessible to the public and minimally site-specific. When a work lacks the standard features of the category to which it belongs, appreciators tend to perceive the work as aesthetically flawed. I then compare and contrast cases of successful and unsuccessful public art to show that accessibility and site-specificity are features which tend to preclude the other. It is difficult, although hardly impossible, for a site-specific work to remain accessible, and difficult for an accessible work to engage adequately with the site on which it is situated. As a result, while not all public art is bad, the features peculiar to public work encourage a latent tendency toward badness.

Developing a Not-Knowing Pedagogy in the Public Art Museum

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Deborah Riding ◽  
Catherine Talbot Landers ◽  
Nichola Grimshaw ◽  
Helen O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
The Public
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