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Public art and the fragility of democracy : an essay in political aesthetics /
Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work's aesthetics are inextricably entwined with its political valences. Democracy's openness allows public art to explore its values critically and to sugge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Democracy's fragility and the political aesthetics of public art
- 2. Voices and places: the space of public art and Wodiczko's the homeless projection
- 3. Democracy's "empty place": Rawls's political liberalism and Derrida's democracy to come
- 4. Public art's "plain tablet": the political aesthetics of contemporary art
- 5. Democracy and public art: Badiou and Rancière
- 6. The political aesthetics of Chicago's Millennium Park
- 7. The political aesthetics of New York's National 9/11 Memorial
- 8. Public art as an act of citizenship
- Appendix: Badiou on "being and the void."