Architecture is Not Public Art
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Rob van Gerwen
Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0920-9404
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https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v6i1.17077Keywords:
architecture, Public Art, phenomenological fit, narrative fitAbstract
In this ‘Editor’s column’, I question whether architecture is what we have come to call Public Art. It seems nonsense to say that architecture is not an art, when it is obviously something that people make for audiences, i.e. for other people who admire it. Moreover, architecture steers and influences people. Evidently, all of culture is by and for people and influences people. But when is culture art? Is design an art – is architecture?
References
Danto, Arthur C. 1987. “Tilted Arc and Public Art.” In The State of the Art, 90–95. New York: Prentice Hall Press.
de Batteux, Abbé Charles. 1746. Les Beaux-arts réduits à un mème principe. Paris: Durand.
Kelly, Michael. 1996. “Public art controversy.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54:15–22.
Kristeller, Paul Oskar. 1978a. “The Modern System of the Arts.” Journal of the History of Ideas 13:17–46.
--- 1978b. “The Modern System of the Arts.” Journal of the History of Ideas 12:496–527.
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