Public Art class 1

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: Deutsche, Rosalyn ; Eliade, Mircea; Grads: Lebfevre, Henri

Resources: http://www.chicagohomeless.org/ http://www.chicagohomeless.org/learn/what