| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages) : illustrations |
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I The Rejection -- 1 Art Inside and Outside the Gallery 3 -- The Art World 5 -- Art with a Capital A 11 -- The Art World and Common Sense 18 -- Charges and Briefs 22 -- II The Shaping -- 2 Moving beyond the Gallery 29 -- Beginnings 29 -- An Art World Brief 35 -- Into the 'Community; 38 -- A Warmly Persuasive Word 40 -- Back to the Art World 41 -- 'What's It For, Mister?' 44 -- Freedom and Structure 47 -- Fun Events v. Artism Lifeism 51 -- 3 From Performance to the Environment 57 -- 'I'm Afraid This Whole Horrible Box Takes Priority' 58 -- From Visual Systems to Free Form Arts Trust 59 -- Performance 61 -- Dead Fish and Totem Poles 72 -- The Environmental Turn 76 -- 4 Community Arts and the Democratization of Expertise 79 -- The Rise and Fall of community Arts and Community Architecture 80 -- Early Environmental Work in Hackney 87 -- Providing Access to Expertise 91 -- 5 Responding to Local Needs: Goldsmiths 95 -- Football and Mosiacs 98 -- Of Distraction and Expression 103 -- 6 Making Art Collaboratively: Provost 111 -- Paths and Plantings 111 -- The Mural 115 -- 'Everybody Was Involved in the Mural' 124 -- The View from the Arts Council 125 -- 7 Theoretical and Political Locations 129 -- Artists and Ethnography 129 -- Locating the Free Form Artists 131 -- The Coming of the Audit Culture 137 -- III Into The Twenty-First Century -- 8 Free Form in 2004 141 -- A Professional Organization 141 -- The Norwich Commission 148 -- The Catton Grove Brief 152 -- 9 A Carnival and a Standing Stone 157 -- The Catton Clear Day Carnival 158 -- 'It's Personalized the Rubbish Collection a Bit More' 162 -- The Fiddlewood Project 165 -- Selecting an Artist 165 -- The Standing Stone 171 -- 'It's Much Better Than That Angel of the North' 177 -- The End of the Journey 180 |
| Summary |
Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective.The book focuses on the forty year history of Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played a major part in the 1970s struggle to carve out a space for community arts in Britain. Turning their back on the world of gallery art, the fine-artist founders of Free Form were determined to use their visual expertise to connect, through collaborative art projects, with the working-class people excluded by the established art world. In seeking to give the residents of poor communities a greater role in shaping their built environment, the artists' aesthetic practice would be transformed.Community Art examines this process of aesthetic transformation and its rejection of the individualized practice of the gallery artist. The Free Form story calls into question common understandings of the categories of "art," "expertise," and "community," and makes this story relevant beyond late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Free Form Arts Trust (Great Britain)
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| SUBJECT |
Free Form Arts Trust (Great Britain) fast |
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Artists and community -- Great Britain
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Art & design styles: from c 1960.
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Sociology.
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Cultural studies.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Artists and community
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Straßenkunst
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Performance Künste
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Volkskunde
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011022355 |
| ISBN |
0857850555 |
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9780857850553 |
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9780857853165 |
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0857853163 |
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9781474214629 |
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1474214622 |
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1003084982 |
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9781003084983 |
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1000181596 |
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9781000181593 |
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1000184773 |
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9781000184778 |
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