TY - BOOK AU - Evans,Fred J. TI - Public art and the fragility of democracy: an essay in political aesthetics T2 - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts SN - 9780231187589 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BH301.P64 E93 2018 U1 - 701.03 EVA 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Aesthetics KW - Political aspects KW - Democracy N1 - 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." ER -