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Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz

The Private Eye in Public Art

Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz

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English
Oro Editions
03 July 2023
Architectural structure & design
Challenging the hegemony of museums and yearning to communicate with a larger diverse audience, trailblazing conceptual artists and land artists found support in newly developed and expanded programs of the NEA and the GSA. 

This book foregrounds critical questions about public art, the policies that govern it, and the processes that realise it. What makes art public? What makes good public art? Why is there so much bad public art? How can the overall standard of public art be improved? What professional practices sponsor the best art for architecture and the environment? How can the artist selection process ensure that only superior artists are commissioned? Aesthetic judgements are implicit in museums exhibitions and acquisitions. Why should art in public places be held to a lesser standard? How can myriad interests of the community and individuals be harnessed to the higher goal of choosing the best artists for a project. 

It is a central contention of the book that despite the numerous constraints encountered in any commission, the most excellent public art expresses and even accentuates the personal, innovative vision of the artist. Approaches that compromise that vision, especially those that try to be all things to all people, inevitably diminish the dynamism and uniqueness of the final work. In the best public art, imagination, originality, passion, and even impulsiveness characterise the work of those artists who, while reaching out to a broader public, paradoxically search for new ideas often antithetical to the rules, materialistic culture, and social practices of the community. Many projects have demonstrated that art that seems different, difficult, and provocative can, in time, become familiar and comprehensible in a public setting and resonate more effectively than conventional solutions.
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Imprint:   Oro Editions
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 229mm, 
Weight:   1.532kg
ISBN:   9781957183152
ISBN 10:   1957183152
Pages:   278
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgments 10 Foreword by Eleanor Heartney 12 PROLOGUE 17 I PROFILE 21 II PERSPECTIVE 33 III POINT OF VIEW 79 IV PROCESS AND PRACTICE 103 V PROJECTS 123 POSTSCRIPT 259 Notes 266 Photo credits 270

Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz is a curator and public art consultant specialising in public art policy, contemporary art commissions for architecture and landscape projects, implementation of arts master plans, and integration of public art into the broader concepts of urban revitalisation and cultural planning.

Reviews for The Private Eye in Public Art

Few people know more about public art in the United States, and fewer have done more than Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz to ensure great artists were given important opportunities to create around the nation. --Anne Pasternak, Director, Brooklyn Museum


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