CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Székely, Júlia |
|---|---|
| Title | A City of (Anti-)Heroes. The Politics of Public Art in Hungary |
| Summary | This paper examines the diversity of the political aspect of public art in Budapest, Hungary, and especially the different socio-spatial consequences implied by the various practices of erecting and placing (anti-)heroes within the city-text. Accordingly, I have devised a model where the categories of “official”, “personal” and “commercial” intend to reflect to a basic disparity between public and private (either in the sense of privacy or in its most important manifestation, that of the logic of market) perspectives, however they are intentionally built upon a curve suggesting a dual tendency on the one hand, from national to global levels, and on the other hand, from politics to commerce. Moreover, during the analysis, this simple opposition between the public and private sectors becomes more tinged through applying theories regarding the interpretation of public space(s) and accessibility of art which reveal and set up other, new (dis)connections as well. Thus, this thesis encounters the main task to detect and identify how the different projects (re)formulate and problematize their public dimensions and how audience as such is (re)interpreted either in terms of exclusion or inclusion. |
| Supervisor | Bodnár, Judit; Fabiani, Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/szekely_julia.pdf |
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