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:
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]]
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