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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.
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.
Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art
spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as
a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a
critical intervention. Across vastly different contexts, where
universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly
misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces
employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive
urban landscape. She shows how these art spaces are embedded within
a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an
important lens through which to understand the nature of, and
possibilities for, urban change.
In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions
for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment".
This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban
Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades.
Given that China's urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once
belonged to American cities, Park's essay is a platform and point
of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections
from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park's
(ir)relevance today - for cities in China, for questions about the
social life of the city and for urban research more generally.
Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is
an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers
and planners.
In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions
for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment".
This book gathers together reflections from a diverse range of
urban China specialists to consider its relevance today, actively
engaging with the challenge of conceptualising urban China and
asking important questions about the development of the
contemporary city.
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