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Public art and the fragility of democracy : an essay in political aesthetics / Fred Evans.

By: Evans, Fred J, 1944- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the artsPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018Description: 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231187589 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Aesthetics -- Political aspects | DemocracyDDC classification: 701.03 EVA LOC classification: BH301.P64 | E93 2018
Contents:
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."
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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."

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