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The Private Eye in Public Art - by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz (Hardcover)

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  • Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA.
  • Author(s): Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
  • 260 Pages
  • Art, Public Art

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Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA.


This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies that govern it, and the processes that realize it. What makes art public? What makes good public art? Why is there so much bad public art? How can the overall standard of public art be improved? What professional practices sponsor the best art for architecture and the environment? How can the artist selection process ensure that only superior artists are commissioned? Aesthetic judgments are implicit in museums exhibitions and acquisitions. Why should art in public places be held to a lesser standard? How can myriad interests of the community and individuals be harnessed to the higher goal of choosing the best artists for a project.


It is a central contention of the book that despite the numerous constraints encountered in any commission, the most excellent public art expresses and even accentuates the personal, innovative vision of the artist. Approaches that compromise that vision, especially those that try to be all things to all people, inevitably diminish the dynamism and uniqueness of the final work. In the best public art, imagination, originality, passion, and even impulsiveness characterize the work of those artists who, while reaching out to a broader public, paradoxically search for new ideas often antithetical to the rules, materialistic culture, and social practices of the community. Many projects have demonstrated that art that seems different, difficult, and provocative can, in time, become familiar and comprehensible in a public setting and resonate more effectively than conventional solutions.



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"Few people know more about public art in the United States, and fewer have done more than Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz to ensure great artists were given important opportunities to create around the nation." --Anne Pasternak, Director, Brooklyn Museum


Dimensions (Overall): 11.2 Inches (H) x 9.2 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 3.62 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Public Art
Genre: Art
Number of Pages: 260
Publisher: Oro Editions
Format: Hardcover
Author: Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 2023
TCIN: 86517420
UPC: 9781957183152
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-8016
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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