Transformations - Art and the City (Paperback)

Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways in which Chapters include case-studies raging from corporate- and public-funded art in Sydney; creative exchanges in Cambodia; politically-engaged enterprise art in the USA; affordable housing models in Australia; street-art under surveillance in Melbourne; and community memorial in post-disaster New Zealand, amongst others. People live, imagine and shape their cities. Drawing on the work of artists globally, from Cambodia to Australia, New Zealand to the USA, this edited collection investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination of art, education, justice, and the role of the citizen in the city. The writers critically and poetically engage with the temporality and genealogies of public spaces, and ask: how do we reconcile artistic practices with an urbanism driven by globalization and capital? And is there room for aesthetic practices in urban discourse? This collection explores how creative practices can work in tandem with ever-changing urban technologies and ecologies to both disrupt and shape urban public spaces, democratization of space through an examination of art, education, justice and the role of the citizen in the city.

General

Imprint:	Intellect Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Mediated Cities
Release date:	September 2017
Editors:	Elizabeth Grierson
Series editors:	Graham Cairns
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-78320-772-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	1-78320-772-8
Barcode:	9781783207725

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