Art and the city

New York: Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Artworks are seen here as presenting themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor; The examples discussed reveat a plethora of emergent forms which are concentrated into three key modalities of urban arts practice in the twenty-first century walking play and cultural memory walking includes the talked walks of artist such as Richard Wentworth, the generative street incursions of Francis Alys, and the walking spectator at a site-based event, including works by Gustv Metzger, Mark Wallinger and Pavel Althamer. Play embraces popular instances of mass public mobilisation in the form of flash mobs and mobile clubbing as well as ̀creative interventions such as free ranning, graffin writing and video sniffing, which reveal themselves to be engaged increasingly in a dialogue with the ̀high art' of artists like Antony Gomely, Mark Quinn and Carsten Holler. Cultural memory is considered via the burgeoning cases of holocaust installations, interrogating two of the best-known- and controversial-European urban sites from the point of view of the physical encounters that they implicity invite Peter Eisenman's memorial in Bertin and Rachel Whitereads' in Vienna. --Book Jacket.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Ideas about art.Kathleen Kadon Desmond - 2011 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Culture and art: an anthology.Lars Aagaard-Mogensen (ed.) - 1976 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press.
Art Without ‘Art’.Dominic McIver Lopes - 2007 - British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (1):1-15.
Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces.Nick Riggle - 2010 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (3):243-257.
Contemporary art & the metaphysics of the art expression.Thomas Eddington - 1978 - [Albuquerque, N.M.]: Gloucester Art Press.
Trying to define art as the sum of the arts.Stephen Davies - 2008 - Pazhouhesh Nameh-E Farhangestan-E Honar (Research Journal of the Iranian Academy of the Arts) 8:12–23.
Lectures on art.Hippolyte Taine - 1875 - [New York,: AMS Press.
The making and meaning of art.Laurie Adams - 2006 - Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-03-21

Downloads
5 (#1,338,464)

6 months
3 (#439,386)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references