Everyday Practice of Public Art

<p><em>The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art Space and Social Inclusion</em> is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment. </p><p>It follows the highly successful publication <i>The Practice of Public Art</i> (eds. Cartiere and Willis) and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists curators activists writers and educators from North America Europe and Australia who offer divergent perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. </p><p>The collection examines the continual evolution of public art moving beyond monuments and memorials to examine more fully the development of socially-engaged public art practice. Topics include constructing new models for developing and commissioning temporary and performance-based public artworks; understanding the challenges of a socially-engaged public art practice vs. social programming and policymaking; the social inclusiveness of public art; the radical developments in public art and social practice pedagogy; and unravelling the relationships between public artists and the communities they serve. </p><p>The Everyday Practice of Public Art offers a diverse perspective on the increasingly complex nature of artistic practice in the public realm in the twenty-first century.</p>