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Publications
This section features publications which have recently been issued. For a more comprehensive listing, please visit our main publications section, which is organised by theme.
The Practice of Public Art
Edited by Cameron Cartiere & Shelly Willis
ISBN: 978-0-415-96292-6
Binding: Hardback
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 6th May 2008
Pages: 286
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This anthology features an exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of the history of public art in the UK and the USA from 1900 - 2005.
Curating in Public 1: Notes on the Power of Place and the ‘Success’ or ‘Failure’ of Public Art by Cameron Cartiere Contributed by: Cameron Cartiere
In a recent issue of the Axis online journal 'Dialogue', Cameron Cartiere examines what exactly 'place' is and why understanding this is essential when approaching the creation of art works in the public realm. She takes us on a journey through contemporary theories of place in order to understand the successes and failures of the two new public art works at St Pancras station: 'The Meeting Place' and 'Sir John Betjeman' sit on the same concourse in the new station building and are both bronze casts, yet they have generated quite opposing reactions, from the press and the public.
http://www.axisweb.org/dlFull.aspx?ESSAYID=125
Artists & Places: Engaging Creative Minds in Regeneration (2008)
Artists & Places shows that involving an artist in schemes improves their quality. The report is the culmination of PROJECT, a two-year initiative to transform the role of artists in placemaking. PROJECT was funded by CABE and Arts & Business, working with Public Art South West.
Two soundwalkers on the War Bar Soundwalk,
Warwick Bar, Birmingham, West Midlands, 2006
Image courtesy of Liminal
The aim of PROJECT was to evaluate the contribution that artists can make to regeneration and development, by involving them in projects in a strategic way. It brought artists into schemes from West Lothian to Hackney. Unlike other art schemes, PROJECT did not fund specific art works. Development professionals had to apply to work with artists, and the awards were given to regeneration schemes rather than individual artists.
Independent evaluation of the initiative found that artists raised the quality of projects, with one developer reporting that the experience had fundamentally changed the way they work.
Artists & Places features six case studies of PROJECT-funded schemes, including:
Warwick Bar, east Birmingham, where sound artists Liminal contributed to the masterplanning process and Winchburgh Futures, West Lothian, where artist Peter McCaughey worked with the local authority and developer on a masterplan for the town extension. Artists & Places is a frank appraisal which shows the barriers to creative influence as well. On the Health and Wellbeing project in Belfast, for example, the artist’s ability to influence the designs was limited by their relatively late involvement in the process. At Project Design, a Derbyshire redevelopment, regulations on the development process hindered creative solutions.
The publication marks the end of the PROJECT initiative and the start of a new phase of funding artistic involvement in regeneration, called Artists for Places, which is a partnership of the Arts Council England (ACE), Arts & Business and CABE.
Artists & Places is available only as a free download:
http://www.cabe.org.uk/default.aspx?contentitemid=2467
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground (2007)
London Underground has long been a pioneer in the field of art and design, from the early twentieth century when it commissioned posters by artists such as Man Ray, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Graham Sutherland. These developments have continued up to the present day with the commission of Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road station in the 1980s, to its newly rebranded art programme, Art on the Underground.
Platform for Art book cover
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground traces the recent history of the contemporary art programme in addition to exploring the rich heritage of art on the London Underground. The book showcases some of the most innovative work from the contemporary international art scene, with visually stunning reproductions of works by many of the participating artists, including Cindy Sherman, Janette Paris, David Shrigley, Bob and Roberta Smith, Emma Kay, Gary Hume and Liam Gillick.
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground is the only comprehensive survey of what is one of London's most important and challenging art programmes. The book includes an introduction by the head of the programme, Tamsin Dillon and text by renowned art journalist and author Alex Coles who explores the broader implications of the scheme and the role of public art in general.
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