Art and the city / Nicolas Whybrow.

Main entry:

Whybrow, Nicolas.

Title & Author:

Art and the city / Nicolas Whybrow.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Description:

xv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
Talking art -- Encountering art -- The urban body -- Section 1 -- 1. The future of art is urban -- 2. Relational writing -- Section 2 -- 3. Walking with Wentworth et al. -- 4. London playing fields -- 5. Berlin, Vienna: Performing Holocaust memory.

Summary:

Artworks are seen here as presenting themselves as a means by which to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor; The examples discussed reveat a plethora of emergent forms which are concentrated into three key modalities of urban arts practice in the twenty-first century walking play and cultural memory walking includes the talked walks of artist such as Richard Wentworth, the generative street incursions of Francis Alys, and the walking spectator at a site-based event, including works by Gustv Metzger, Mark Wallinger and Pavel Althamer. Play embraces popular instances of mass public mobilisation in the form of flash mobs and mobile clubbing as well as ̀creative interventions such as free ranning, graffin writing and video sniffing, which reveal themselves to be engaged increasingly in a dialogue with the ̀high art' of artists like Antony Gomely, Mark Quinn and Carsten Holler. Cultural memory is considered via the burgeoning cases of holocaust installations, interrogating two of the best-known- and controversial-European urban sites from the point of view of the physical encounters that they implicity invite Peter Eisenman's memorial in Bertin and Rachel Whitereads' in Vienna. --Book Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781845114664 (hbk.)
1845114663 (hbk.)
9781845114657 (pbk.)
1845114655 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art and anthropology.
Public art.
Art and society.
Art Philosophy.
Art et anthropologie.
Art et société.
Art Philosophie.
Denkmal
Großstadt
Plastik
Öffentlicher Raum

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Location: Library main 275956
Call No.: BIB 210452
Status: Available

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