最近,为编辑《公共艺术在中国》一书,我意外发现,不少学者与艺术家都把“公共艺术”理解成了放在公共空间里的艺术。这使他们在撰写文章时,着重探讨如何使所谓“公共艺术”具有“公共性”的问题。 坦率地说,我不能同意上述观点。因为古今中外的历史足以证明:在任何国家和地区,只要政治事务的决定权掌握在极少数 Recently, for the compilation of “Public Art in China,” I unexpectedly found out that many scholars and artists have interpreted “public art” as the art that is placed in the public space. This led them to focus their discussions on how to make the so-called “public art” a “public” issue when writing articles. Frankly speaking, I can not agree with this view. Because the history at home and abroad is sufficient to prove that in any country and region, as long as the decision-making power of political affairs rests in a very small number