Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Traditions

1. Memorizing the holocaust

2. Chilean memorials to the disappeared : symbolic reparations

3. Modern mural painting in the United States

4. Locating history in concrete and bronze : civic monuments in Bamako, Mali

5. The conflation of heroes and victims : a new memorial paradigm

Part II. Site

6. Sculptural showdown : (re)siting and (mis)remembering in Chicago

7. In the streets where we live

8. Powerlands : land art as retribution and reclamation

9. Waterworks : politics, public art, and the university campus

10. Augmented realities : digital art in the public sphere

Part III. Audience

11. Audiences are people, too : social art practice as lived experience

12. Contextualizing the public in social practice projects

13. Art administrators and audiences

14. Poll the jury : the role of the panelist in public art

15. Participatory public art evaluation : approaches to researching audience response

Part IV. Frames

16. The time frame : encounters with ephemeral public art

17. The memory frame : set in stone, a dialogue

18. The patronage frame : New York City's mayors

19. The process frame : vandalism, removal, re-siting, destruction

20. The marketing frame : online corporate communities

21. The mass media frame : pranking, soap operas, and public art