Julia, thanks for sparking this great dialogue and list!
One Place After Another was a favored text among my professors, and had a very big influence on me as a student. I cannot wait to dive into some of the other
suggestions on this list!
We in the midst of forming a partnership between the City, the Arts Council, and a great local heritage preservation org to collectively plan and support collection
management and conservation, as well as information sharing and storytelling around our Collection. Crowdsourced interpretation, and working with students to provide multi-media interpretation and tours is a goal we are working towards.
Please let us know how your student project unfolds.
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Subject: Re: Interpreting public art--resources for students
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
Arts Council of Indianapolis
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