Heartney, Eleanor
The dematerialisation of public art
Sculpture, March/April '93, p45-49
1993
With the removal of 'Tilted Arc' went a whole battery of assumptions about p.a. the discussion shifted away from the notion of the site-specific towards the community as context; art in context must be seen as the latest volley in the argument the nature of art and the nature of public space, Russian Constructivism, Situationism, Fluxus, Conceptualism; list of key projects in recent past; local artists who know and understand local communities and develop long-term relationships with them most suited to this work.
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