This thesis is concerned with placing 'public art' within the broader modernist spatialisation of social relations. The research takes place around two related enquiries. The first emerges from questions raised by the art critic Rosalyn Deutsche in regard to the proposition that public art functions as both a profession and technology that attempts to pattern space 'so that docile and useful bodies are created by and deployed within it'. Following such questions, this thesis seeks to scrutinise the ways in which discourses on public art might also operate in enabling, maintaining or even disrupting everyday practices and socio-spatial relations. Secondly, as a foray into methodologies of public art research, the thesis considers Foucauldian 'governmentality' approaches in terms of what these might have to offer an investigation of public art. / Thesis (PhD )--University of South Australia, 2008.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267013 |
| Creators | Fazakerley, Ruth, |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright under review |
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