Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Off Base 1
6. Part 1: The State and the Negotiation of Taste
7. 1. The Wrong Commemoration: Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith’s Paintings of the State Funeral of Sir John Thompson 23
8. 2. A Drive through Canadian History: People, Cars, and Public Art at Niagara Falls in the 1930s 45
9. 3. Camouflage Series 65
10. 4. Public Art and Canadian Cultural Policy: The Airports 75
11. Part 2: Memory, Politics, and Controversies
12. 5. I nostri grandi Padri … Heroic Nationalism and the Italians of Montreal: The Monument to Giovanni Caboto, 1935 95
13. 6. What’s the Point? 115
14. 7. Mémoire ardente by Gilbert Boyer, or When Politics Penetrates Contemporary Art 125
15. 8. Edmonton’s City Hall as Visual Archive and Collector of Memory 145
16. Part 3: Activist Practices in Public Art Today
17. 9. Cultural Interventions in the Public Sphere 163
18. 10. Queering the Streets: Johannes Zits and Contemporary Public Art as Activism 183
19. 11. Exhibiting Madness in The Weyburn Project: Situating Performance/Installation in an Abandoned Mental Asylum 201
20. 12. Model for a Public Space 223
21. 13. Dark Forces at Mount Allison University 229
22. Part 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Public Art
23. 14. Emerging Urban Aesthetics in Public Art: The Thresholds of Proximity 247
24. 15. Window (Dis)Plays: Reality Shopping 265
25. 16. Framing Temporality: Montreal Graffiti in Photography 271
26. 17. Stardance 293
27. 18. The Public Part of Public Art: Technology and the Art of Public Communication 303
28. Works Cited 319
29. Contributors 333
30. Illustration Credits 339