Public Art: Thinking Museums Differently

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Public Art acknowledges the trend among up to date museums to advertise participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to elicit subjective experience. On the same time it valorizes the object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated museums from other institutions in a similar way committed to public service and the perpetuation of cultural values. To blend and expand these aims, Hein draws upon a movement toward ephemerality and impermanence in public art. She proposes a new dynamic for the museum that may be temporal and pluralistic, at the same time as retaining a grounding in material things. The museum is an agent, not a repository; and like public art, it interacts constructively with passing and transitory publics. As an actor with social clout, the museum has moral have an effect on and responsibilities beyond those of the individuals that comprise its collective identity. The book must be read by museum workers and students, by arts and foundation administrators, critics, educators, aestheticians, institutional historians and theorists, and by somebody interested within the transmission of cultural concepts and values.

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