This volume looks at how artists react to the area of monumental art today, accentuating the relationship between art, politics and social activism: Miriam Rosen investiagates the potential of recent developments in communication such as Cyberspace, Superhighways and the Internet; Jeff Kastner, in an interview with Mary Jane Jacob, examines recent community-based projects in the United States and, in particular, looks at what has been termed "new genre" public art; and Valerie Mavidorakis considers the history of public commissions from Rodin to Serra and from Baquie to Rachel Whiteread and the infamous house.
- ISBN10 185490230X
- ISBN13 9781854902306
- Publish Date 29 December 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Academy
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English