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Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
A critical framework for understanding and interpreting the new public art that has emerged over the last two decades. Featuring twelve essays from editor Suzanne Lacy: and eleven eminent artists, curators, and critics. Chapters titled as follows: An Unfashionable Audience, Public Constructions, Connective Aesthetics: Art After Individualism, To Search for the Good and Make It Matter, From Art-mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto against Censorship, Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be, Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society, Common Work, by Jeff Kelley, Success and Failure When Art Changes, Word of Honor, Debated Territory. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
A Matter of Life and Death and Singing
Catalogue from exhibition of Durham’s work from all periods of his life.
A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
Illuminates ways of devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of now.
Carpe Minuta Prima
Five DVDs from five different members of the public participating in Brian Lobel’s Carpe Minuta Prima performance.
Opavivara
Documentation of the Opavivara collective performances: 2005 – 2011.
Yorkshire On-land Boating Club
Documentary film telling the story of the 2009 journey Heave. This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).
Living as Form : Socially engaged art from 1991 - 2011
Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a survey of more than 100 projects that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics.
Performance Art : From Futurism to the Present (Third Edition)
Maps the history of performance and live art up until 2011.
Being an Artist in Post Fordist Times
Text concerning the place and function of arts in society.
Participating in the Wrong Way?
Practice Based Research into Cultural Democracy and the Commissioning of Art to Effect Social Change.
The Cultural Resistance Reader
Brings together classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance.
Beautiful Trouble
Part manifesto and part reference guide: brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of artists and activists from around the world.
