Title & Author:

Being public : how art creates the public / Jeroen Boomgaard & Rogier Brom (eds.).

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz : LAPS, Research Institute for Art and Public Space : Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2017.

Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Making Public

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
High expectations, higher thresholds / Maaike Lauwaert -- Public as practice / Jeroen Boomgaard -- On not falling in line, or how to become a public / Rogier Brom -- Dissonances and the public domain: an interview with Gabriel Lester / Jeroen Boomgaard & Rogier Brom -- The blind spot: art and politics in the Netherlands / Steven ten Thije -- Art as encounter / Anke Coumans -- Crisis, art and their multiple audiences: from Embros Theatre to IDAMM / Eva Fotiadi -- Does the tragedy of the commons repeat itself as a tragedy of the public domain? / Florian Cramer -- Miscommunicating publics / Barbara Neves Alves.

Summary:

"Being Public' is an anthology of essays investigating, from different perspectives, the notion of 'public'. 'Public' is one of the most issued categories in current debates on culture, yet the notion itself remains largely un-reflected. The meaning of both 'art publics' and 'public space' have become complex in a time where boundaries between public and private are shifting, and where 'the public' actually comprises different groups of changing composition and identity. What does it mean to be public today? And what is the role of art in constituting both 'public space' as well as 'a public'? Taking these questions as a starting point, the book aims to create a better understanding of the relationships between art and the notion of the public."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9789492095282 (paperback)
9492095289 (paperback)

Subject:

Art and society.
Public art.
Art et société.
20.11 art collecting.
20.10 art and society: general.

Added entries:

Boomgaard, Jeroen, editor.
Brom, Rogier, 1982- editor.
Boomgaard, Jeroen editor.
Reijnen, Leo translator.
Making Public

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301482
Call No.: BIB 247659
Status: Available