Public Art Readings

Fundamentals: Space and Human Consciousness

Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane, Ch. 1 pp 20 - 29

Public Space:

Deutsche, Rosalyn. “Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Homeless Projection and the Site of Urban “Revitalization””, in Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics, pp 3-48

History:

Garvey, Timothy. Public Sculptor: Laredo Taft and the Beautification of Chicago, pp. 70-87

Rose, Barbara. “Art as Experience, Environment, Process” in Pavilion, Experiments in Art and Technology, pp. 60-104

Paschke, Ed. “Preserving Public Art in Chicago”, in Art for the People, pp. 43, 43

Becker, Heather. “The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the WPA Federal Art Project”, in Art for the People, pp. 70 - 73, 76 , 77

Alternative, Contemporary, Urban Art:

Karam, Nadim & Atelier Hapsitus. Urban Toys, pp. 44 – 51, 54-59, 391

Sculpture Chicago: Culture in Action pp. 106 – 113 The Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group pp. 76 – 87 Tele-Vecindario

Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents. pp. 8-10, 18-19.

Site Specific, Land Art:

Dempsey, Amy. Brancusi Ensemble, pp. 36-37; Sun Tunnels, pp. 100-101; Marinus Boezem, De Groene Kathedral, pp. 118 – 119; Tranekaer International Centre for Art and Nature (TICKON), pp. 164-165;

Promotional Art:

Sullivan, Mary Ellen. Cows on Parade in Chicago, pp. 6 – 13

Community Art:

Gude, Olivia and Huebner, Jeff. Urban Art Chicago, pp 11 – 22 Logistics: Cruickshank, Jeffrey L. and Korza, Pam. Going Public: A field guide to developments in art in public places

Grads:

Hixson, Kathryn. “Icons and Interventions in Chicago and the Potential of Public Art”, Sculpture Magazine, May/June 1998 Vol.17 No. 5; [[1]]