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Author Whybrow, Nicolas

Title Art and the city / Nicolas Whybrow
Published London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1; Section 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices. 'Art and the City' takes this observation as its cue to examine the role of art against a backdrop of globally rising urban populations, taking into account the more recent performative and relational 'turns' of art that have sought in their city settings to identify a participating spectator - an implicated citizen. In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by whic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index
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Subject Art and anthropology.
Public art.
Art and society.
Art -- Philosophy.
The arts: general issues.
ART -- History -- General.
Art and anthropology
Art and society
Art -- Philosophy
Public art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857718822
0857718827
9780857731470
0857731475