Mapping the Terrain

Author:

Suzanne Lacey

Description:

In this anthology of twelve essays, editor Suzanne Lacy and eleven eminent artists, curators, and critics forge a critical framework for understanding and interpreting the new public art that has emerged over the last two decades. Mapping the Terrain departs from traditional definitions of public art and explores how the new public art reaches diverse audiences to address issues of race, gender, homelessness, ecology, and urbanization. Also included in this publication is a useful illustrated compendium that chronicles the work of over ninety pioneering new genre public artists. Mapping the Terrain makes an invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about public art and how it can be meaningfully woven into our social fabric.

Introduction

Chapter 1 - An Unfashionable Audience, by Mary Jane Jacob

Chapter 2 - Public Constructions, by Patricia C. Phillips

Chapter 3 - Connective Aesthetics: Art After Individualism, by Suzi Gablik

Chapter 4 - To Search for the Good and Make It Matter, by Estella Conwill Majozo

Chapter 5 - From Art-mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto against Censorship, by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Chapter 6 - Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be, by Lucy R. Lippard

Chapter 7 - Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society, by Judith F. Baca

Chapter 8 - Common Work, by Jeff Kelley

Chapter 9 - Success and Failure When Art Changes, by Allan Kaprow

Chapter 10 - Word of Honor, by Arlene Raven

Chapter 11 - Debated Territory: Toward a Critical Language for Public Art, by Suzanne Lacy

About the author: Suzanne Lacey is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt, (Minneapolis,1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television. During the nineties she worked with teams of artists and youth to create an ambitious series of performances, workshops, and installations on youth and public policy, documented by videos, local and national news broadcasts, and an NBC program. Her work has been funded through numerous local and national foundations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Surdna, and Nathan Cummings Foundations.
Also known for her writing, Lacy edited the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, published in 1995 by Bay Press, a book that prefigures current writing on politically relevant performance art. She has published over 60 articles on public art.

Publisher: Bay Press (1995)
ISBN: 0941920305, 9780941920308, 0-941920-30-5