These are all great suggestions... I was specifically thinking of interpretation, because I'm working with a class to design tours, catalogue entries, and signage. 

Julia Moore (mobile)

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 10:20 PM Janet Zweig <janetzweig@gmail.com> wrote:
Some of the books I use in teaching:

Finkelpearl, Tom. Dialogues in Public Art, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Finklepearl, Tom. What We Made: Conversations of Art and Social Cooperation. Duke University Press, 2013.

Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Doss, Erika. Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America. University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Doherty, Claire, ed. Out of Place Out of Time: Public Art (Now). Art/Books 2015.

Cartiere, Cameron and Shelly Willis, The Practice of Public Art, Routledge, 2008.

Purves, Ted (editor). What We Want is Free, Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art. SUNY Press, 2005.

Thompson, Nato. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. The MIT Press, 2012.

Mitchell, W.J.T. (ed). Art and the Public Sphere, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 


On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:54 PM, McGregor Consulting <jmcgconsult@gmail.com> wrote:

So many great recommendations.  I would also recommend A Companion to Public Art, (2016) edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet Senie, published by Wiley Blackwell. Wide ranging essays that bring some of the topics mentioned by others up to speed.  The audience is students. 

Jennifer McGregor

On Mar 4, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Hirschfield, James <jhirschf@email.unc.edu> wrote:

While it is out of print, I have my students read Erika Doss’ Spirt Poles and Flying Pigs.  While written in 1995, I still find it relevant and on target.  For a more historical perspectives I also like Harriet Senie and Sally Webster’s Critical Issues in Public Art.

Jim Hirschfield





On Mar 4, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Julia Muney Moore <jmoore@indyarts.org> wrote:

If you were to recommend ONE resource to a group of college-age students who are learning about how to interpret public art for others (written, signage, in-person), what would that resource be?  Here’s the one I’d recommend:  

F. Senie, Harriet. (2008). Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation. 10.1002/9780470775936.ch9. 

Any others?

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis
924 N. Pennsylvania St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
O. (317) 631-3301 x240
M. (317) 332-8382



To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://archives.simplelists.com


To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://archives.simplelists.com


To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://archives.simplelists.com


To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=Ij2IQgwFmOvsRLwIgVh7kb8KBiBUZ8Qf