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Art and the City
Nicholas Whybrow
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Description for Art and the City
Paperback. In exploring how artworks present themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas Whybrow discusses diverse examples, representing three key modern modalities of urban arts practice. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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 which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas ... Read more
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 which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845114657
SKU
V9781845114657
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About Nicholas Whybrow
Nicolas Whybrow is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include 'Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin' and, as editor, 'Performance and the Contemporary City: An Interdisciplinary Reader'.
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