Preface?
- A duality emerges between public art which is bound by the aesthetics of the object, and art as a continuous, participatory process of social criticism.
- Two roles for art are suggested:
- as decoration within a re-visioned field of urban design in which the needs of users are central,
- and as a social process of criticism and engagement, defining the public realm not as public sites but as complex fields of public interest. The tension between these positions is creative.
Evaluation Mentioned
- 4: The contradictions of Public Art
- Page 59:
- Selwood, The Benefits of Public Art, 1995
- ref 25: A particular problem is the lack of a tested methodology for either qualitative or quantitative evaluation, though this could be developed from the skills of market researchers; more important is the definition of what constitutes a benefit to society.
- Page 68:
- (first mentioned The Strategy for Public Art in Cardiff Bay,1990) ..we could contrast Visual Dallas (Dallas, 1987), which begins with an evaluation of the city, and the importance for its ‘livability’ of good public space, citing W.H.Whyte (perhaps ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’,1980)
- Page 76: Evaluation