Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy

By: Fred Evans

ISBN-13: 9780231187596
ISBN-10: 0231187599
Publisher: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Published date: 2021-05-25
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.