Research Catalog

Title

Art and the city : worlding the discussion through a critical artscape / edited by Jason Luger and Julie Ren.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Luger, Jason
• Ren, Julie

Description

xix, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and installation, ephemerality and performance, and constantly sought out new modes of distressing expectations about what is construed as art. But when we expand the world in which we look at art, how does this change our understanding of critical artistic practice? This book presents a global perspective on the relationship between art and the city. International and leading scholars and artists themselves present critical theory and practice of contemporary art as a politicised force. It extends thinking on contemporary arts practices in the urban and political context of protest and social resilience and offers the prism of a 'critical artscape' in which to view the urgent interaction of arts and the urban politic. The global appeal of the book is established through the general topic as well as the specific chapters, which are geographically, socially, politically and professionally varied. Contributing authors come from many different institutional and anti-institutional perspectives from across the world. This will be valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, urban geography and urban culture, as well as contemporary art theorists, practitioners and policymakers."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city

Uniform Title

• Art and the city (Routledge (Firm))
• Routledge studies in urbanism and the city.

Subjects

• Art > Political aspects
• Art and social action

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Arts works: Art worlds - scales, spaces, scapes / Harriet Hawkins -- Introduction: disruptions of a critical artscape / Julie Ren -- How colour replaces fear / Yazmany Arboleda and Nabila Alibhai -- The collective moment: post-Museum's Rowell Road period / Jennifer Teo and Woon Tien Wei -- Art/movement as a public platform: artistic creations in the sunflower movement and the umbrella movement / Pei-yi Lu and Phoebe Wong -- Ghana ThinkTank: mobility, reversal and cultural difference / Gretchen Coombs -- Diversifying the stage of policymaking: a new policy network in Berlin's cultural field / Friederike Landau -- Alternative art schools in London: contested space and the emergence of new modes of learning in practice / Silvie Jacobi -- RENT Poet: commodity, respectability and scam in Los Angeles / Brian Sonia-Wallace -- Artistic activism as essential threshold from the 'peaceful, rational, non-violence' demonstrations towards revolution: social actions in Hong Kong in the pre-umbrella movement era / Liza Kam and Wing Man -- The climate games: space, politics and resistance at the COP21 Paris / Ben Parry -- New genre public commission? The subversive dimension of public art in post-Fordist capitalism / Thierry Maeder, Mischa Piraud and Luca Pattaroni ; translation: Jessica Strelec -- Unpacking public places in Gothenburg - the Event City: becoming a cannibal / Marika Hedemyr -- Our house in the middle of the street / Nela Milic -- Crowd creations: Interpreting occupy art in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement / Sampson Wong -- #Beirut, urbanism and me: framing the city through space, identity and conflict / Luisa Bravo -- Conclusion: towards the worlding of art and the city? / Jason Luger.

Call Number

JQE 17-947

ISBN

• 9781138236219
• 1138236217

LCCN

• 2016056813
• 40027288266

OCLC

966314895

Title

Art and the city : worlding the discussion through a critical artscape / edited by Jason Luger and Julie Ren.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Luger, Jason, editor.

Ren, Julie, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027288266

Research Call Number

JQE 17-947