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Article: Call for populist public art.(Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism)(Book review)
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Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism
By Cher Krause Knight
Blackwell Publishing, 2008
187 pp./$32.95 (sb)
From Richard Serra's Tilled Arc (1981) to Jeff Koons's Train (scheduled for 2011), from Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1981) to The Gates (2005) by Christo and Jean-Claude, public art has ignited heated discussions sometimes resulting in its removal from the site, its modification, or other arrangements to appease. The answer to the question of why we have incessant controversies over these publicly displayed artworks can be found in the pages of Cher Krause Knight's Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism. Here ...