Title & Author:

Public servants : art and the crisis of the common good / edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xxvi, 515 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Critical anthologies in art and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series preface / Johanna Burton -- Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips -- Plight of the publics: an introduction to Public servants / Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon -- Public works. "We don't need another hero": war and public memory / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Who owns a vacant lot?: orthodoxy vs. culture industry / Lise Soskolne -- Art and the cultural contradictions of urban regeneration, social justice, and sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in post-Katrina New Orleans / Joshua Decter -- Latin America and a new political leadership: experimental acts of coexistence / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- The destruction of destruction / Eyal Weizman -- Department of security. The fire this time: Black youth and the spectacle of postracial violence / Henry A. Giroux -- Photo requests from solitary / Jean Casella, Jeanine Oleson, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Solitary Watch, and Tamms Years Ten, with Steven Corotan, Darrius "D-Man" Fields, Robert Frazier, Rachel Herman, Chris Murphy, Frank Reyna, Robert Sauseda Jr., Willie Sterling, Kijana Tashiri Askari, and Robert Timm -- Can this machine kill mass incarceration? / Joshua Dubler -- Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: anxiety in a big-data era / Kate Crawford -- Department of labor and economy. Biopolitics, identity, and the public sphere in the 1970s: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge / Devin Fore -- W.A.G.E.N.C.Y. / W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) -- Indent (to serve the debt) / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney -- In service: art, value, merit, and the making of publics / Andrea Phillips -- Portfolio / Simone Leigh ; Ashley Hunt ; Pedro Reyes ; Jeanne van Heeswijk ; Gregg Bordowitz ; Mel Chin ; Pablo Helguera ; Caroline Woolard ; Jonas Staal ; Andrea Fraser ; organized by Alicia Ritson and Kaegan Sparks -- Department of education. Neoliberalized knowledge / Wendy Brown -- Back to the future (of art school) / Alex Klein -- Sliding scale: between art and education / Marit Dewhurst in conversation with Johanna Burton -- Mutual rehabilitation: Norfolk Prison recordings of art books for blind readers / Mara Mills -- Department of health and environment. Art after nature: the post-natural condition / T.J. Demos -- Dear ---------, I write regarding toxic sovereignties in Windjarrameru / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Embodied memory: reimagining and legislating sumak kawsay in the modern Andes / Bill Kelley Jr. -- Women, Waves, Web / Carrie Lambert-Beatty -- Department of culture. Government agency / Tom Finkelpearl in conversation with Shannon Jackson -- A critique of social practice art: what does it mean to be a political artist? / Ben Davis -- Growing dialogue: what is the effectiveness of socially engaged art? / Ben Davis, Tom Finkelpearl, Deborah Fisher, Elizabeth Grady, Richard Kooyman, Rick Lowe, Louisa McCall, Ernesto Pujol, Katy Reckdahl, Gregory Sholette, Noah Simblist, Randall Szott, Nato Thompson, and Glenn Weiss -- Starting in the middle: NGOs and emergent forms for cultural institutions / Irit Rogoff.

Summary:

How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged art" may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways--driven by radical economic, political, and global forces. According to what terms and through what means can art engage with these changes? This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects--some previously published and some newly commissioned--to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape. An artist portfolio section presents original statements and projects by some of the key figures grappling with these ideas.

ISBN:

9780262034814 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262034816 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts and society.
Art and state.
Arts et société.
Art Politique gouvernementale.
Art and Design.
Gesellschaft
Kunst
Engagierte Kunst
Kunstsoziologie
Öffentlicher Raum
Public art.

Added entries:

Burton, Johanna, editor.
Jackson, Shannon, 1967- editor.
Willsdon, Dominic, editor.
Critical anthologies in art and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293878
Call No.: BIB 239122
Status: Available