The Art of the Multitude
Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience
Distributed for Campus Verlag
200 pages
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50 color plates
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6 3/4 x 8 1/2
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© 2016
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Mechtild Manus and Jonathn P. Vickery
I. On Memory: Artists, Writing and Narratives, History and Testimony
The Artist as Facilitator of Civic Memory: Coventry’s The Future Monument and The Public Bench
Jonathan P. Vickery
The Tiny Presence of Words
Philippe Mesnard
Countermonument in Europe: The Spatial Politics of Artistic Memory-Work
Zuzanna Dziuban
II. On Participation: Social Creativity, Culture and Democracy, Citizenship and Its Alternatives
As Art Disappears into Society
Hermann Pfütze
Public Authorship as a Multitude of Voices
Marion Hohlfeldt
Dissonant Memories and Subversive Memorialization Practices
Milena Dragićević Šešić
III. On Public Space: Cities, Architecture, and Politics
Taking People as They Are and Europe as It Might Be: The Controversy over the Square of the European Promise
Volker M. Heins
Civic Remembrance and the Politics of Place
Malcolm Miles
Absorbing Disturbances: The Heterotopia as a Model for Monumental Space
Niklas Maak
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Copyright and Photography Credits
Index Works by Jochen Gerz
Index Names and Terms
Mechtild Manus and Jonathn P. Vickery
I. On Memory: Artists, Writing and Narratives, History and Testimony
The Artist as Facilitator of Civic Memory: Coventry’s The Future Monument and The Public Bench
Jonathan P. Vickery
The Tiny Presence of Words
Philippe Mesnard
Countermonument in Europe: The Spatial Politics of Artistic Memory-Work
Zuzanna Dziuban
II. On Participation: Social Creativity, Culture and Democracy, Citizenship and Its Alternatives
As Art Disappears into Society
Hermann Pfütze
Public Authorship as a Multitude of Voices
Marion Hohlfeldt
Dissonant Memories and Subversive Memorialization Practices
Milena Dragićević Šešić
III. On Public Space: Cities, Architecture, and Politics
Taking People as They Are and Europe as It Might Be: The Controversy over the Square of the European Promise
Volker M. Heins
Civic Remembrance and the Politics of Place
Malcolm Miles
Absorbing Disturbances: The Heterotopia as a Model for Monumental Space
Niklas Maak
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Copyright and Photography Credits
Index Works by Jochen Gerz
Index Names and Terms
Review Quotes
Public Art Review
"Cultural identity, public memory, participation, and the connections among community, art, and politics are explored through essays by ten authors. Throughout the book the editors use the biblical term multitude as a more complex, heterogeneous, and experiential way of saying the public, and focus particularly on the work of conceptual artist Jochen Gerz, many of whose works invite direct participation by the ‘multitude.’"
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