Building Material is the journal of the Architectural Association of Ireland. The theme of Building Material 19 is Art & Architecture. It features writing by Grace Weir, Dara McGrath, Matthew Beattie and Eamon O'Kane; works by Co...

This book traces the histories and counter histories of the memorial, and explores the development of the anti-memorial as a new form of art practice. An in-depth investigation of the memorial, Home, made in Inner City Dublin provides a con...

This book brings together a series of reflections and practices around issues of local and trans-local cultural production within different contexts in Europe, prompted through the agency of a collaborative and networked project: Rhyzom. 

Fireside Conversations is a response to a series of talks hosted by the Fire Station Artists' Studios that explored key facets of their work in the areas of collaborative and socially engaged arts practice, studio provision and arts and dis...

Published in English in the 1960s, this text focuses on how we experience intimate places, and how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams.

The book highlights the working process of the artists Susan Gogan, Declan Gorman, Ríonach Ní Néill and Rhona Byrne in the projects they undertook in collaboration with a range of communities, including members of Macra Na Feirme; Ballymun Pige...

This 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...

The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces th...

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale refor...

This book, edited by Claire Doherty and published by Black Dog Publishing, describes the shift in focus that has taken place in much contemporary art practice in the last decade. From the notion of relational aesthetics to the concerns of site-spe...

Situation-a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations-has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, ...

By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Now public artists might design the entire plaza, create an event to alter the social dynamics of an urban environment, or help to reconstruct a neighbourhood. <...

In a world falling to pieces, a new breed of art objects is capturing its fractured allure in three dimensions. Unmonumental features recent work by thirty contemporary sculptors at the vanguard of their craft, selected by one of contempora...

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today's complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion's claim that contemporary architecture's main task is to interpret a way of life valid f...

Art & the Public Sphere provides a new platform for academics, artists, curators, art historians and theorists whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art’s relation to the public sphere. The journal present...

Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang M...

Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art...

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 Terr...

This book is a register of 760 pieces of public art with photos, captions containing titles, artists’ names, locations, and symbolism where relevant. The public art works are presented alphabetically, by province, county and town or vill...

Although highly regarded during his short life and honored by artists and architects today, the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific proje...

In recent years there has been increased debate on the incorporation of pedagogy into curatorial practice—on what has been termed "the educational turn" ("turn" in the sense of a paradigmatic reorientation, within the arts). ...

It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywher...

Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, an...

In this anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analysing the context in which i...