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Art, Space and the City
by Malcolm Miles

Art, Space and the City
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Author: Malcolm Miles
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-28
ISBN: 0415139430
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Routledge

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Book Review: One of the Best Studies about Public Art
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is one of the best studies carried through on the problematic of the public art in the internacional context. The author displays of a form notable the new conceptions of public art, collated with the classic conceptions that afect the monument. He analyzes some of the interventions more interesting of the public space, and explains the intentions of each creator. Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread, Tone Otterness, Antony Gormley, Isamu Noguchi, Mierle Ukeles, Wodiczko, is some of the examples that the author appeals to show to the diversity of the proposals contemporaries. For beyond the artists, the author collates diverses teses defended by Rosalin Deutshe, Suzanne Lacy, Sara Selwood, Harriet F. Senie, among others. If it is interested in deepening its knowledge in the field of the public art, cannot leave to possess a unit of this book in your private library.

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