Art and the Global City

James T. Andrews (Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1994) is Distinguished University Professor of Modern Russian History at Iowa State University. He is the editor or author of five books, including an acclaimed two-volume cultural history of the Soviet space program titled Red Cosmos (2009) and Into the Cosmos (2011) respectively. His fellowships and awards include the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Margaret R. LaWare (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1993) is Associate Professor of English and Speech Communication at Iowa State University where she has been Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. The author of numerous articles in major journals such as College English and Women’s Studies in Communication, she is currently completing a book titled Speaking to America’s Women: Commencement Speeches, Women’s Colleges, and Feminist Movements.

• List of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgments – James T. Andrews/Margaret R. LaWare: Introduction: Urban Space, Art and Global Cultural Transformations – Art, Urban Space and the Global City – Suzanne Berman: Altering Perceptions of Urban Space: The Works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude – James T. Andrews: Narrating the Soviet Metropolis: Urban Technology, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorical and Communicative Value of Underground Architectural Space in Moscow – Nikos Papastergiadis: Going Out: Rights to the City and the Cosmos – Mark W. Rectanus: Deconstructing the Museum’s White Cube: Gregor Schneider’s Artistic and Discursive Interventions in Urban Space – Oliver Armstrong: From Plan to Process: The Language of Public Space Evaluation – Transformative Media and the Changing Urban Landscape – Daniel Makagon: Seeing the City through Photozines –Audrey Yue: From Creative to Critical Placemaking: Ambient Participation and the Cultural Impact of Digital Media Art in Public Space – Pan Ji: Building Rural Memories into Mediated Cities: How Rustic Elements Boost Popularity of City Images on Tiktok – Isabel Fangyi Lu: Urban Artivism and Placemaking: The Case of Federation Square, Melbourne – Danielle Wyatt/Bree Trevena: Creating Ground: Making Space for Art and Ambient Participation in Australia’s Cultural Capital – Urban Rhetoric and Evolving Visions of the City – Scott McQuire: Light Art and the Aesthetics of Urban Appropriation – Gary Gumpert/Susan J. Drucker: Searching for Hidden Memories: Ghost Signs and Other Facades – Margaret R. LaWare: Imagining the Unoppressive City: Tracing the Re-creation and Circulation of Community Murals in Chicago – Yong-Chan Kim/Miran Pyun/Young Eun Yoo: Art, Gentrification, and Communication Infrastructure in Urban Neighborhoods: The Case of Mullae in Seoul – Max M. Renner: Artistic Transfigurations of the City: The Rhetorical Potential of Architecture as Public Art – Nikos Papastergiadis/James T. Andrews/Margaret R. LaWare – The Liquid Polis and Ambient Aesthetics of Communicative Cities: An Afterword – Editors – Contributors – Index.

“Art and the Global City: Public Space, Transformative Media, and the Politics of Urban Rhetoric makes original and significant contributions to how we think about public art as a form of media and communication. The authors extend the idea of ‘communicative cities,’ showing how public art originates, gets commissioned (through municipal and political processes of recruiting artists, determining sites, negotiating fees, etc.), produced, and responded to by urban audiences, and how it transforms physical and social environments. The authors, scholars from different academic disciplines, explore a wide and fascinating range of urban art projects—everything from ‘light art’ to ‘ghost signs’ to neighborhood murals. I highly recommend this new book for anyone interested in how public artists help urban residents mediate and negotiate modern citiscapes.”—Kenneth Zagacki, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University