This book documents the exhibition history of Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles' (born 1948) installations, featuring 12 of the most important installations he has executed from 1970 to the present day. Meireles was among the first to experiment with multisensory immersive installations that required audience participation.
In conjuction with an exhibition of site-specific public art in four British cities, curators, critics, artists, and academics discuss the ramifications of public sculpture, focusing on how the meaning of monuments is transformed historically and culturally, and how artists critique the public realm by looking at political and social issues, such as the gendering of space. Biographical notes on 28 artists. 2 bibl. ref.