Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press)

very interesting, well-written/spoken this is a textbook for a class I'm taking. very interesting content, well-organized. not too dry; like reading magazine articles and interviews. first book I've read on public art so have nothing to compare it to. I recommend the physical book, not the e-book.The digital experience is not great. MIT Press has a proprietary format that requires different apps dep on your device. Books do not sync between devices so notes and bookmarks only available on the one. On ipad, there is no text highlight or copy , only on mac/pc. books not. Good overview Although Finkelpearl is simply wrong about the web and his setting up of an antithetical relationship between the city and its suburbs is, well, dated his book is really one of the best collection of contemporary public art interviews and ideas out there. Finkelpearl's hands-on involvement with NYC public art programs gives him a level-headed, understated, and pragmatic interview style which avoids too much theoretical diddling and agenda-pumping. Smart, clear, well organized anybody interested in contemporary public art should ow. I have to remember this store, if need, I will come back again. abptym iiyunh I am very happy with my purchase not very pretty, but they have plenty of use Terrible product. Good deal! no leaks,my love Pretty good. Overall I highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for lights for decoration A perfect produt with high quality. can't go wrong with that!

About the AuthorTom Finkelpearl is Program Director of PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. From 1990 to 1996, he was Director of New York City's Percent for Art Program.

By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Dialogues in Public Art presents a rich blend of interviews with the people who create and experience public art -- from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led the fight to have them removed; from an artist who describes his work as a "cancer" on architecture to a pair of architects who might agree with him; from an artist who formed a coalition to convert twenty-two derelict row houses into an art center/community revitalization project to a young woman who got her life back on track while living in one of the converted houses.The twenty interviews are divided into four parts: Controversies in Public Art, Experiment

From 1990 to 1996, he was Director of New York City's Percent for Art Program.. Tom Finkelpearl is Program Director of PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City