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Public Private <br /> open to everyone restricted to some <br /> accessible (for money) closed even to those that could pay <br /> state-related; now often nonstate, belonging to civil society; <br /> called public sector now often called private sector <br /> political nonpolitical <br /> official nonofficial <br /> common special <br /> impersonal personal <br /> national or popular group, class, or locale <br /> international or universal particular or finite <br /> in physical view of others concealed <br /> outside the home domestic <br /> circulated in print circulated orally or in manuscript <br /> or electronic media <br /> known widely known to initiates <br /> acknowledged and explicit tacit and implied <br /> "the world itself, in so far as it is related to the individual, especially <br /> common to all of us and inwardness, subjective experience and <br /> distinguishable from our incommunicable <br /> privately owned place in it" <br /> (Arendt) <br /> Source: Public and Private (Warner 2002, pp. 29-30) <br /> In Tom Finkelpearl's book,Dialogues in Public Art(2000), he puts forth a definition that <br /> is consistent with these definitions and refers to the cultural power relationships that often <br /> underpin the understanding of public art. The book is a collection of interviews with artists and <br /> critics. Its focus is on works of art that are displayed and viewed outside the confines of a <br /> museum, and consequently, the definition that he uses for public art is intentionally narrow. He <br /> writes: <br /> In this book, when I use the term "public art," I am relying on an understanding of <br /> common usage. Public art is often sponsored by public agencies, usually existing outside <br /> of museums and galleries, and addressed to audiences outside the confines of the art <br /> world. But I do not want to define the words or the field. I will say that the word <br /> "public" is associated with the lower classes (public school, public transportation, public <br /> housing, public park, public assistance, public defender) as opposed to the word <br /> "private," which is associated with privilege (private school, private car, private home, <br /> private country club,private fortune, private attorney). Art is generally associated with <br /> the upper classes, at least in terms of those who consume it—collectors and museum <br /> audiences. Many of the projects in this book explicitly or implicitly address the class <br /> 36 <br />