Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics

Author/Contributor(s):	Evans, Fred
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	06/22/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.