The book is dedicated to analyze of nonpolitical aspects of the social memory actualization, the role of contemporary art in particular. It is used a notion of Public Art. Based on it is proposed a new one "public art of reminder," which is approached to actualize social memory in the urban space by means of activation peoples mnemonic and creative abilities. Our empirical analyze consists in the exploration of the actual artistic projects and works of "public art of a reminder" in the Ukrainian and Russian urban spaces in general and Kharkiv ones in particular. It was carried out...