Public Art class 1
esse quam videri
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]]