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Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture)
Johanna (Ed) Burton
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Description for Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Burton, Johanna; Jackson, Shannon; Willsdon, Dominic. Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 38 color illus., 78 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 250 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1384.
Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts. How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term public art is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as new genre public art, social practice, or socially engaged art may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and ... Read more
Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts. How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term public art is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as new genre public art, social practice, or socially engaged art may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
1384 g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262034814
SKU
V9780262034814
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About Johanna (Ed) Burton
Johanna Burton is Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum in New York and the series editor for the Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture. Shannon Jackson is Associate Vice Chancellor of the Arts and Design and the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Social ... Read more
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