CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. 1. DEMOCRACY’S FRAGILITY AND THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF PUBLIC ART 1
5. 2. VOICES AND PLACES: THE SPACE OF PUBLIC ART AND WODICZKO’S THE HOMELESS PROJECTION 23
6. 3. DEMOCRACY’S “EMPTY PLACE”: RAWLS’S POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND DERRIDA’S DEMOCRACY TO COME 48
7. 4. PUBLIC ART’S “PLAIN TABLET”: THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF CONTEMPORARY ART 81
8. 5. DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC ART: BADIOU AND RANCIÈRE 109
9. 6. THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF CHICAGO’S MILLENNIUM PARK 153
10. 7. THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF NEW YORK’S NATIONAL 9/11 MEMORIAL 181
11. 8. PUBLIC ART AS AN ACT OF CITIZENSHIP 231
12. Appendix: Badiou on “Being and the Void” 249
13. NOTES 255
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 311
15. INDEX 327