For forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing-housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sp...
The work of forty-two world-renowned artists, from eleven participating countries, fills this comprehensive and colourful volume. Within its pages, The International Creators' Organization transports its readers around the world on a voyage of discovery, where many treasures of great public art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are found and explored. This thoughtful and beautiful book has captured the global essence of dynamic public art, integrating art into the environment.
In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, post-reunification public sculptures, and images and sites from the street art scene. Her careful analyses show how these developed new architectural and spatial vocabularies that drew on the city’s infrastructure and daily urban experience. These works challenged mainstream urban development practices and engaged with citizen activi...
Keskustelupuisto - Conversation Park
by Oliver Kalleinen and Tellervo Kalleinen
Critical Issues in Public Art
by Director of Museum Studies Harriet Senie and Sally Webster
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 consid...
The interaction with happened-upon street art is both physical and emotional, provoking a reaction and hopefully a conversation about the work this worldwide phenomenon. From backs of street signs to corporate boardrooms, its visibility, popularity, and diversity is what makes it so beloved. Highlighting some of the best work from around the world, The Urban Canvas is an extensive look at this art form and the artists that make it great as brought to you by G. James Daichendt 'Professor Street...
Wrapping historic structures in silvery fabric and blue cable - a famous tradition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude In the summer of 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude along with a team of hundreds. Wrapping historic structures in silvery fabric and blue cable has become a famous tradition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude: landscape projects in the USA, Japan, and Australia and urban projects such as the Po...
Art Altstetten Albisrieden
by Nico Anklam, Konrad Bitterli, Kate Brown, Christoph Doswald, Brigitte Huck, Max Kung, Katarina Kurkubic, Ingeborg Ruthe, Sascha Serfozo, and Andreas Vogel
James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts
by Dr William L. Pressly
Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. Although his works form the most impressive series of history paintings in Great Britain, they remain one of the British art world's best kept secrets, having attracted little attention from critics or the general public. James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of these remarkable paintings and the f...
The famous Lion Monument in Lucerne, located in a park in the heart of the city, commemorates the Swiss Guards in the service of the French King Louis XVI who fell in the storming of the Tuileries Palace in Paris on August 10, 1792. The monument, hewn directly into the rockface according to a design by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, was inaugurated on August 10, 1821. Together with the nearby Glacier Garden, it is today one of the Swiss city’s major tourist attractions. To mark the memo...
Few buildings reveal truths, inspire greatness, and narrate the creation of humanity. Creative Genius: The Art of the Nebraska Capitol documents such a place. The Nebraska Capitol—once called “a peak in the history of building accomplishment”—breaks the boundaries of architecture and art. Creative Genius unveils new images of the art of the Capitol in striking detail. Included are some of the greatest works by some of America’s most recognized artists and visionaries. Along with remarkable vi...
An essential archive of a progressive public art program, spotlighting over 50 artworks commissioned for one of New York City’s most iconic parks This publication chronicles the vibrant history of public art in Madison Square Park, presenting two decades’ worth of celebrated artworks that have reimagined the park for its more than 50,000 visitors each day. Sumptuously illustrated with photography of every major project since 2004, alongside statements from each artist, Public Art in Public Spac...
Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. From leaders and scientists to artists and writers, the fascinating stories of these women that time forgot are now celebrated, putting their achievements firmly back on the map. The Artists brings together the stories of 48* brilliant woman artists...
Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime-and not just in museums. Tucked away in tree-lined parks, preserved in world class restaurants, emblazoned on Metro station walls, and hidden in the most unexpected places are masterpieces worthy of the Louvre, if you know where to look! In this whimsically illustrated celebration of Parisian art and artists, author and curator Lori Zimmer highlights more than 100 treasures. From...
Contrary to what one might imagine, there is no such thing as an experience designer. At least not in the sense that we might talk of an individual recognised as such. To make experiences is to be human. Shaman, architect, food engineer – you name it, they are all experience designers. Informed by an understanding of people’s needs and wants – our stories, our rituals, our myths – the beautifully designed experience has the power to transform lives. The Experience Book is an ode to that power....