Autocratic Yawn: The Manipulation of Public Perception
‘Alexander Hayes’ - East Perth, Western Australia 2002
Abstract
Public art in Western Australia has been boosted by the Australian Federal Government’s Percent for Art Scheme, which requires one percent of all new construction budgets for new development over $2 million to be spent on artwork. The scheme is a State Government initiative that started in 1989. It is managed by the Department of Finance in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries ˗ which is responsible for arts policy in the State. Examples of contemporary works and accounts from professionals in the Arts sector reveals the importance of engaging the public in the completion of these works. An analysis of these perceptions are comparatively examined, drawing upon the understandings of what constitutes public art from literature written by leaders in this field of endeavour.
Keywords
public art, government, politics, public, art, aesthetics, urban development, industry
Detail
A paper in 1992 written to meet the conditions of completion for the Visual Arts Theory 491 unit as part of the Bachelor Of Arts (Art) (Honours) that I completed under the Supervision of Julian Goddard at Curtin University, Western Australia.
Download
Download paper [ PDF ]
