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Week 1 (Jan. 29)

introduction to the class, self-guided tour, discussion of lakefront public spaces and public art.

What is public art?

Introduction to mind map as a way to generate and organize concepts.

Scott McCloud’s categorization of work and how it can proceed from one of four orientations/camps (formal, narrative, classical, iconoclastic)

Visitor: Joe Leamanczyk, Project Manager, Office of Campus Environment

Discussion of Asn. 1.

Reading for next week:

Readings can be found in: All:

Deutsche, Rosalyn. excerpt from Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics; 3-48

Eliade, Mircea. Excerpt from The Sacred and the Profane; undergrads, pp 20-29, grads 20-65

Grads:

Lebfevre, Henri. The Social Production of Space [[1]]

critique of: [[2]]

Resources:

• Homeless.org [[3]][[4]]
• Lefebvre, about: [[5]]
• Project for Public Spaces [[6]]
• Krzysztof Wodiczko [[7]]
• Ivan Mestrovic [[8]]
• Fountain of the Great Lakes [[9]] [[10]]
• Agora, Magdalena Abakanowicz [[11]] [[12]] [[13]] [[14]]
• Buckingham Fountain [[15]]
• General Logan [[16]] [[17]]
• Chicago Public Art Group [[18]]
• 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago [[19]]