Dialogues in Public Art

by Tom Finkelpearl

Book Overview

By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Now public artists might design the entire plaza, create an event to alter the social dynamics of an urban environment, or help to reconstruct a neighborhood. Dialogues in Public Artpresents a rich blend of interviews with the people who create and experience public art-from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262062097
• ISBN13: 9780262062091
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 2.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good overview

Although Finkelpearl is simply wrong about the web and his setting up of an antithetical relationship between the city and its suburbs is, well, dated... his book is really one of the best collection of contemporary public art interviews and ideas out there. Finkelpearl's hands-on involvement with NYC public art programs gives him a level-headed, understated, and pragmatic interview style which avoids too much theoretical diddling and agenda-pumping. Smart, clear, well organized... anybody interested in contemporary public art should own this book.