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Art / Architecture
0-920159-72-9
$35.00 CDN / $30.00 US
7.75 x 9 - 176 pages - 43
b&w and 6 colour photos - casebound
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Queues
Rendezvous Riots:
Questioning the
Public in Art and Architecture
Edited by:
George Baird and Mark Lewis
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Contributors to
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What do you do with the civic
monuments, commemorative sculptures and public art of fallen
regimes? How do artworks and buildings function when they embrace
notions of “the public” that no longer prevail? What could
public art be today? This anthology, edited by Toronto architect
George Baird and Vancouver artist Mark Lewis, offers a strategic
exploration of these questions -- and many others -- raised by the
tension of changing political times. Essays by renowned theorists
illuminate the ways in which symbols of “the public” serve
specific historical and philosophical movements.
George Baird is Professor of
Architecture at Harvard University and a partner in the
architectural firm Baird/Sampson Architects.
Mark Lewis is an artist whose work
has been exhibited internationally. He was a founding member of the
art and theory journal, Public, and currently teaches
sculpture and photography at the University of British Columbia.
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