Fred Evans (Duquesne University Professor)

Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

An Essay in Political Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society.

Produktdetails

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 150mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780231187596
• ISBN-10: 0231187599
• Artikelnr.: 60591363

Autorenporträt

Fred Evans

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
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"
Notes
Bibliography
Index