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Nature in Context: A Situated Study of herman de vries’s Sanctuaries
Since the early 1990s, the Dutch artist herman de vries has installed several works in public space with the title sanctuarium (or sanctuary)—empty plots of land, surrounded by a fence, where nature is left to grow uninterrupted.
Arnon Ben-Dror
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Public art as conversation piece: scaling art, public space and audience
Previous scholarship on public art has surveyed – in a usually discursive and at times overly generalised mode – how experts assume or ascribe a plethora of roles and (mis)uses regarding art in various political, economic, social and cultural ...
Martin Zebracki
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A Place for All People: Louise Nevelson’s Chapel of the Good Shepherd
In 1973, a church and a bank joined forces to reimagine an entire block of Midtown Manhattan. The church was St. Peter’s, and the bank was First National City Corporation, or Citicorp. The Citicorp Center, now owned jointly by St.
Caitlin Turski Watson
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A Reflection on the Permanence of Ancient Motifs in Mentally Woven Carpets (Case Study: Nomads Living in the Protected Area of Bahram Gur in the East of Neyriz and Qashqai in Fars Province) [PDF]
Problem Definition: Carpet motifs, like other motifs, are full of mystery, structural complexity, and symbolic meanings. Some of these motifs have changed over time, and some of them have survived in climate, culture, or societies with a specific culture
Behnam Hajivandi
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“Fragile Possibilities”: The Role of the Artist’s Book in Public Art
Writing during the millennium, not long after the installation of Antony Gormley’s The Angel of the North, artist and publisher Simon Cutts criticised the dominance of monumentalism within the field of public art.
Elaine Speight, Charles Quick
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Public Art and Percent for Art Strategy
Public art plays a number of roles in the economic, social and cultural transformation of cities. The cultural policies of cities are significant for the interest in public art. The percent for art strategy as an important policy is one of the methods to
Bengi Polat, Şebnem Gökçen
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Purpose. The research aimed to develop an integrated and systematic method for assessing risk in contemporary public art collections. The research outlines key elements of a public-art risk-management plan.
Marta Gomez Ubierna
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Art and Politics in the US Capitol
Wendy Bellion, Anna O. MarleyAs an art historian, there are a few things you never want to read about; tear gas residue on paintings is one of them.
Wendy Bellion, Anna O. Marley
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Public Art, Representation, and Questions of Revising the Past
Operating from the position of an artist with a mature practice in creating public art, this essay chronicles and contextualises the development of a series of works that consider the history, symbolism, interpretation, and evolving understanding of ...
Jenny Roesel Ustick
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Public and artistic practices in the public area have been the object of a lot of research: most of the time, the studies are concerned with interventions or actions which dispute the established institutional order or at least try to disturb its obviousness (e.g. urban guerrilla).
Ancel, Pascale, Girel, Sylvia
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