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Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Evans, Fred (Professor, Duquesne University)
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Evans, Fred (Professor, Duquesne University)
Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society.
360 pages, 22 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 20, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231187589 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 360 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 161 × 29 mm · 635 g |