List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgements xxA Companion to Public Art: Introduction 1Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. SeniePart I Traditions 13Introduction 15Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. SenieArtists' PhilosophiesMemory Works 25Julian BonderPublic Art? 30Antony GormleyNatural Phenomena as Public Monuments 34Alan Sonfist1 Memorializing the Holocaust 37James E. Young2 Chilean Memorials to the Disappeared: Symbolic Reparations and Strategies of Resistance 51Marisa Lerer3 Modern Mural Painting in the United States: Shaping Spaces/Shaping Publics 75Sally Webster and Sylvia Rhor4 Locating History in Concrete and Bronze: Civic Monuments in Bamako, Mali 93Mary Jo Arnoldi5 The Conflation of Heroes and Victims: A New Memorial Paradigm 107Harriet F. SeniePart II Site 119Introduction 121Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. SenieArtists' PhilosophiesGive That Site Some Privacy 129eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht)The Grandiose Artistic Vision of Caleb Neelon 135Caleb Neelon6 Sculptural Showdowns: (Re)Siting and (Mis)Remembering in Chicago 139Eli Robb7 In the Streets Where We Live 164Kate MacNeill8 Powerlands: Land Art as Retribution and Reclamation 176Erika Suderburg9 Waterworks: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus 191Grant Kester10 Augmented Realities: Digital Art in the Public Sphere 205Christiane PaulPart III Audience 227Introduction 229Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. SenieArtists' PhilosophiesPractical Strategies: Framing Narratives for Public Pedagogies 239Suzanne LacyPublic Art in a Post-Public World: Complicity with Dark Matter 245Gregory Sholette11 Audiences Are People, Too: Social Art Practice as Lived Experience 251Mary Jane Jacob12 Contextualizing the Public in Social Practice Projects 268Jennifer McGregor and Renee Piechocki13 Art Administrators and Audiences 285Charlotte Cohen and Wendy Feuer14 Poll the Jury: The Role of the Panelist in Public Art 296Mary M. Tinti15 Participatory Public Art Evaluation: Approaches to Researching Audience Response 310Katherine GresselPart IV Frames 335Introduction 337Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. SenieArtists' PhilosophiesThe Virtual Sphere Frame: Toward a New Ontology and Epistemology 347John Craig FreemanThe Elusive Frame: "Funny," "Violent," and "Sexy" 353Tatzu Nishi16 The Time Frame: Encounters with Ephemeral Public Art 359Patricia C. Phillips17 The Memory Frame: Set in Stone, a Dialogue 376Amanda Douberley and Paul Druecke18 The Patronage Frame: New York City's Mayors and the Support of Public Art 386Michele H. Bogart19 The Process Frame: Vandalism, Removal, Re-Siting, Destruction 403Erika Doss20 The Marketing Frame: Online Corporate Communities and Artistic Intervention 422Jonathan Wallis21 The Mass Media Frame: Pranking, Soap Operas, and Public Art 435Cher Krause KnightEpilogue 457Cameron CartiereIndex 465
Cher Krause Knight is Professor of Art History at Emerson College, USA. She is the author of Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World (2014; paperback 2019); and Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (Blackwell, 2008). With Harriet F. Senie she also co-edited and contributed to Museums and Public Art? (2018). Together, Knight and Senie co-founded Public Art Dialogue, an international professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary critical forum for the field. They also co-founded and co-edited the journal Public Art Dialogue, the first peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to public art.Harriet F. Senie is Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. program in Art History and the Art Museum Studies track at City University, New York, USA. She also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 (2015); Dangerous Precedent? The 'Tilted Arc' Controversy (2001); and Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy (1992). With Cher Krause Knight she co-edited and contributed to Museums and Public Art? (2018), and with Sally Webster, Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (1992; revised edition 1998).