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. 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]]

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• Lefebvre, about: [[5]]
• Project for Public Spaces [[6]]