Abstract

This work examines the changes in government and civic involvement in public art beginning with the Third Reich through present day. It includes various types of public art that range from monuments and memorials to propaganda and murals. The work is the result of a series of open-ended interviews with art professionals in the government and non profit sectors in Berlin. The information from the interviews is supplemented by research about public art and government involvement in Berlin. The work highlights different transitions in the content and form of the public art as well as government and civic involvement in public art. The work finds a dramatic shift in roles for the government and the public. Government has gone from the primary controller and provider of public art to a lesser, secondary role of funder with artists and the public playing the more dominant role.

Presenters

Jessica DeShazo
Associate Professor, Public Administration/Department of Political Science, California State University Los Angeles, California, United States

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

KEYWORDS

"Berlin", " Public Art"

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