Public artopia
Subtitle: art in public space in question
By: Martin Zebracki
Publisher: Pallas Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Amsterdam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789085550655
Subjects: Public art
Other titles: Publiek kunstbeeld
Description: "This book provides further insight into the interrelationships between artwork, public space and beholder. Public art has been a burgeoning phenomenon across cities in the Western world since the late 1940s. Various axioms have been produced about what public art 'does' to people in certain places and times. These axioms mainly originate from those who produce public artworks and those who are involved in public art's enabling institutional and cultural policy contexts. Until now, public art has hardly been problematised from a geographical perspective. On top of that, little is known about the relationships between art and public space through particularly the perspectives of public art's publics. This work explicitly includes both a geographical perspective and publics' experiences of public art."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "Ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Urtecht op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof. dr. G.J. van der Zwaan, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het poen baar te verdedigen. op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 des middags te 2.30 uur"--Added t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178).

Also available electronically.

Summary in Dutch.