Mapping the Terrain
{Notes from the class presentation}
From: Adam Eldridge
New genre of art Public Art
The book is pretty much a collection of essays about public art
This includes: Social intervention and humanizing urban environment.
Public art in the beginning mostly consisted of:
-Vietnam war protests
-community art (ghetto art)
-Feminist art -abortion issues -sex abuse
-Marxist art
Rise of Public art = censorship
The question of is Graffiti public art?
It is for everybody and any one can be a critic including the homeless
Why does Graffiti matter?
Placement Tagging rights gang property and turf wars or as a community project
Public art is a feminist of Marxist origin?
Matt doesn’t believe this
He says: don’t believe it
Think of public art as a blank slate
This book is too define in the origins
Trust your instincts
-Museum standards-
What if the DAM invited the best Graffiti art from around the world?
The cleared out the whole museum and let these artist go to town on the walls?
Why not leave the art up for 90 days?
The museum would draw people from all over
But does the DAM want that kind of and audience?
Should communities have a sense of censorship?
The idea of multifaceted art
It’s hard to make gumbo that taste good
It is hard to do a piece of art that will include all the issues: Homelessness, racism, land rights, water rights, culture, and religion rights
But going off of one of these ideas to spark ideas and creating something that ends up pulling in a lot of these issues is good
Artist should be true to their voice to please yourself and be aware of the issues, don’t people please you might lose the meaning
2 comments:
Mapping The Terrain: Book Review
1. New Visual Art Uses- reclaiming and humanizing the urban environment. Ex- Vietnam War Protests, Feminist Art, Marxist Art
2. Rise of public art- Increased racial discourse, Censorship, feminism
3. Museum Standards- More defined & distinguished, resistant to change/revamping. Artists choosing to step outside the domain of the museum gains a bittersweet freedom. Public venue can be used to avoid the discriminatory selection process of museums.
4. Art for the public not art just in public spaces.
I found this book to be similar to the de Certeau book, but was easier to read. It offered different essay’s to help explain the theory behind non-mainstream art/artists.
Eva Alabaugh
Conversation Pieces- Book Review
1. Art should challenge the viewer. It should make people rethink their own ideals.
2. Art should be ambiguous and not fully understood.
3. Community should be involved with art.
4. Author has issue with the fact that art is based on what you see.
5. Funding changed the way artists do their work. Public funding tends to lead to more public community projects.
Dialogue Esthetics
1. All art starts off with dialogue.
2. Curators are not important
This book had some interesting concepts that I had not considered before. The role of the curator for example. I always thought that a curator was as intrigual to art as the materials used to make art. In today’s art society I can see how the curator is no longer the all powerful position in the art world. People all around the world are creating art and showing their work without a curator. Food for thought!
Eva Alabaugh
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