More Sky

Otto Piene

ISBN 10: 0262660172 / ISBN 13: 9780262660174

Published by MIT Press, 1973

About this Item

The front cover hinge is worn and is tearing off the spine itself, but still attached! The cover is worn, rubbed, and creased with the outer edges lamination being slightly peeled. Spine is creased, but binding is secure. Ink signature from previous owner on the half-title page, otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 1144328

Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Sky
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262660172
• ISBN 13: 9780262660174
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

How to make public property artful and art public property--opening up new horizons in art and art education.

Otto Piene opens up new horizons in both art and art education. His book is a plea for more scope, more space for art--for making public property artful and making art public property--for freeing the arts from the tight economic bonds that give the curators and collectors a monopoly. He writes, The artist-planner is needed. He can make a playground out of a heap of bent cans, he can make a park out of a desert, he can make a paradise out of a wasteland, if he accepts the challenge.... In order to enable artists of the future to take on planning and shaping tasks on a large scale, art education has to change completely. The first part of More Sky covers things to do arranged alphabetically A-M--including city planning, clothing, collaboration, electronic music, engineering, government, graffiti, graphics, and green toad jelly. (Piene will take up N-Z some other time.) The last part of the book, Wind Manual, gives a practical demonstration of things to do in one area--the whole sky, making use of the wind. This section consists almost entirely of illustrations of some of the things the artist can do to purify the skies polluted by man--including flags, banners, ribbons, wind socks, wind sculptures, riggings, and kites.

About the Author

Otto Piene, project director for Centerbeam and director of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, continues to explore the many interfaces of art, technology, and the environment.