Editing Public art (section)

{{Short description|Art in public space}}
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[[File:The Spire-doyler79.jpg|thumb|The [[Spire of Dublin]]]]
'''Public art''' is [[art]] in any [[Media (arts)|media]] whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre<ref name="PCP-temp&pa">{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Patrica C. |title=Temporality and Public Art |journal=Art Journal |date=1989 |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=331–335 |doi=10.2307/777018 |jstor=777018 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/777018 |access-date=21 September 2020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically accessible to the public; it is installed in public space in both outdoor and indoor settings.  Public art seeks to embody public or universal concepts rather than commercial, partisan, or personal concepts or interests.<ref name="Smith">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |title=Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy |journal=Landscape Architecture Magazine |date=2008 |volume=98 |issue=12 |pages=128–127 |jstor=44794099 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44794099 |access-date=21 September 2020}}</ref>  Notably, public art is also the direct or indirect product of a public process of creation, procurement and maintenance.<ref name="Raven">{{cite book |editor-last1=Raven |editor-first1=Arlene |title=Art in the Public Interest |date=1989 |publisher=UMI Research Press (University of Michigan |location=Ann Arbor and London |isbn=0-8357-1970-7}}</ref><ref name="Finklepearl">{{cite book |last1=Finklepearl |first1=Tom |title=Dialogues in Public Art |date=2001 |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=978-0262561488}}</ref><ref name="Gevers">{{cite book |editor-last1=Gevers |editor-first1=Ine |title=Place, Position, Presentation, Public |publisher=Jan van Eyck Akademie |location=Maastrict/De Balie, Amsterdam}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.americansforthearts.org/by-topic/public-art|title=Americans for the Arts {{!}} Public Art|website=Americans for the Arts|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref>

Independent art created or staged in or near the public realm (for example, [[graffiti]], [[street art]]) lacks official or tangible public sanction has not been recognized as part of the public art genre,<ref name="Suderburg">{{cite book |editor-last1=Suderburg |editor-first1=Erika |title=Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art |date=2000 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis |isbn=0-8166-3158-1}}</ref> however this attitude is changing due to the efforts of several street artists.<ref name="SMag">{{cite journal |last1=Ellsworth-Jones |first1=Will |title=The Story Behind Banksy |journal=Smithsonian Magazine |date=February 2013 |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-story-behind-banksy-4310304/ |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref><ref name="Deitch">{{cite book |last1=Deitch |first1=Jeffrey |title=Swoon |date=2010 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |isbn=978-0810984851 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdlKAQAAIAAJ |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>  Such unofficial artwork may exist on private or public property immediately adjacent to the public realm, or in natural settings but, however ubiquitous,<ref>Rafael Schacter, "''The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti''", September, 2013; {{ISBN|9780300199420}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2014/02/13/rafael-schacter-and-his-world-atlas-of-street-art-and-graffiti/|title=Rafael Schacter and His "World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti"|date=2014-02-13|website=www.brooklynstreetart.com|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> it sometimes falls outside the definition of public art by its absence of public process or public sanction as "bona fide" public art.<ref name="bja">{{cite journal |last1=Bacharach |first1=Sondra |title=Street Art and Consent |journal=British Journal of Aesthetics |date=October 2015 |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=481–495 |doi=10.1093/aesthj/ayv030 |url=https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/article/55/4/481/2195110 |access-date=22 September 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref>