Evans, Fred J.,  1944- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-326) and index. 
<br/><br/>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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231187589 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018008523 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aesthetics--Political aspects.<br/>Democracy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BH301.P64  / E93 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>701.03 EVA  / 21398