Discover hundreds of the most interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world! Amazing Art Adventures offers us art and culture as an experience both within and beyond the gallery, opening a door to unexpected adventures - art fairs, festivals, installations, art trails, galleries, art islands, monuments, sculpture parks and museums. Aimed at all of us who travel to learn about new places and cultures, the book gathers together hundreds of unforgettable art experiences arou...
Postwar public art encompasses the wide range of intriguing, curious and colourful artworks, which can be seen in urban and rural locations throughout Britain. From traditional figurative sculptures to the "Angel of the North", these works further the aim of 'bringing art to the people' that became popular following the 1951 Festival of Britain. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the history of postwar public art and provides a detailed guide to nearly two hundred of the most interesting...
Public art has the capacity to resonate deeply, stimulate curiosity, and inspire the imagination in unexpected ways. The collection on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin is no exception. This catalog features recent acquisitions, including a community-based photography project by Ann Hamilton, a 4,000-square-foot mural by José Parlá, the complete Landmarks Video archive, as well as works by Marc Quinn, Nancy Rubins, Michael Ray Charles, James Turrell, and Sol LeWitt, among others. E...
Coster Avenue, the smallest portion of the Gettysburg National Military Park, marks the site of some of the last fighting on July 1, 1863, the First Day of the great battle. There, in what was then a brickyard, Col. Charles Coster's Union brigade made a forlorn and futile stand against the two Confederate brigades of Gen. Harry Hays and Col. Isaac Avery. Outnumbered by more than three to one, Coster's brigade was shattered and sent reeling in a pell-mell retreat through the streets of Gettysburg...
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Empty Plinths: Monuments, Memorials, and Public Sculpture in Mexico responds to the unfolding political debate around one of the most significant public monuments in North America, Mexico City’s monument of Christopher Columbus on Avenida Paseo de la Reforma. In convening a diverse collective of voices around the question of the monument’s future, editors José Esparza Chong Cuy and Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa probe the unstable narratives behind a selection of monuments, memorials, and public sculp...
The Selected Essays of John Berger (Vintage International)
by John Berger
Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger's essays are absolutely central to it. Many of the ideas of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing were presented first in essays published in New Society. Polemical, reflective, radically original, Berger's...
Culture in Action
by Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson, and Eva M. Olson
Art and the City: A Public Art Project
by Christoph Doswald, Markus Miessen, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
What's That, Mom? (The Journal) (Caterpickles Parenting, #2)
by Shala K Howell
Teachable Monuments
Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal. Since the convulsive events of 2015 and 2017, during which white supremacists committed violence in the shadow of Confederate symbols, and the 2020 nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, protesters and politicians in the United States have removed Confederate monuments, as well as monuments to historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Dr. J. Marion Sim...
Ritual, Heritage and Identity
This book explores the importance of ritual and ritual theory to discourses of authenticity and originality, thereby deepening our insight into concepts of cultural heritage, identity and nation in a globalised world. The volume is the first interdisciplinary attempt to understand the significance of rituals and related performative traditions in the creation of grounded cultural identities, ‘home’ and heritage as geographically experienceable locations. It assembles perspectives from social and...
Seit den 80er Jahren entstehen in Niederosterreich kunstlerische Projekte im offentlichen Raum. Die Arbeiten reichen von autonomen Skulpturen uber Stadtmoblierung bis hin zu temporarer Kontextualisierung und kommunikativer Intervention, Gestaltung von Platzen, Konzepten von Mahnmalen und Kunstprojekten in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bevolkerung. Die Publikation dokumentiert das europaweit vorbildliche Modell fur Kunst im offentlichen Raum in Niederosterreich. Der theoretische Teil setzt sich mit dem...
The essential visual guide to the global phenomenon of graffiti and street art.
Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and phy...
Broken Ground
Artisans of Trabajo Rústico (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
by Patsy Pittman Light
As documented in Patsy Pittman Light's award-winning book, Capturing Nature, Mexican artisan Dionicio RodrÍguez arrived in San Antonio in the 1920s and created concrete bus stop shelters, park benches, footbridges, and other structures in the style known as faux bois, or trabajo rÚstico. Following on the success of that previous work, Light, with photographer and artist Kent Rush, presents a comprehensive look at the legacy of RodrÍguez as reflected in the works of those whom he trained, mentore...
The towering sculptures of Dylan Lewis are becoming well-known landmarks in South Africa, where they grace botanical gardens, golf courses, grand hotel foyers and the halls of discerning collectors. Increasingly, they are being snapped up by galleries and institutions abroad. This publication builds on an earlier book, bringing the photographic record of Dylan Lewis' work up to date. The brief introductory text reveals how the sculptor's boyhood in a happily bohemian, nature-loving and creative...