Looking at three historically distinct conjunctures of artistic
practice, this book claims public space for renegotiating art and
community, art and politics, art and economy. This book investigates the
changing relations between art practice and public space, between art
and community, and between art and resistance in the Americas in the
1920s, 1960s, and the contemporary period. The book explores new visions
of culture, community, and public space in the U.S. and Latin America as
they have emerged from artistic practice in public sites.