Public art and the fragility of democracy : an essay in political aesthetics /
Evans, Fred J., 1944-
Public art and the fragility of democracy : an essay in political aesthetics / Fred Evans. - 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-326) and index.
The fragility of democracy and the political aesthetics of public art -- Voices and places: the space of public art and Wodiczko's the homeless projection -- Democracy's "empty place": Rawls's political liberalism and Derrida's democracy to come -- Public art's "plain tablet": the political aesthetics of contemporary art -- Democracy and public art: Badiou and Ranciere -- The political aesthetics of Chicago's Millennium Park -- The political aesthetics of New York's National 9/11 Memorial -- Public art as an act of citizenship -- Badiou on "being and the void."
9780231187589 (cloth : alk. paper)
2018008523
Aesthetics--Political aspects.
Democracy.
BH301.P64 / E93 2018
701.03 EVA / 21398
Public art and the fragility of democracy : an essay in political aesthetics / Fred Evans. - 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-326) and index.
The fragility of democracy and the political aesthetics of public art -- Voices and places: the space of public art and Wodiczko's the homeless projection -- Democracy's "empty place": Rawls's political liberalism and Derrida's democracy to come -- Public art's "plain tablet": the political aesthetics of contemporary art -- Democracy and public art: Badiou and Ranciere -- The political aesthetics of Chicago's Millennium Park -- The political aesthetics of New York's National 9/11 Memorial -- Public art as an act of citizenship -- Badiou on "being and the void."
9780231187589 (cloth : alk. paper)
2018008523
Aesthetics--Political aspects.
Democracy.
BH301.P64 / E93 2018
701.03 EVA / 21398