Art and the City
Art and the City

Author: Jason Luger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1315303019

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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.

My Town
My Town

Author: David Gentleman

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 014199312X

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David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago. Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world. 'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett 'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery' Guardian 'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times 'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal

Slow Burn City
Slow Burn City

Author: Rowan Moore

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1447270193

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With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.

Art, Space and the City
Art, Space and the City

Author: Malcolm Miles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1134771029

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This book examines public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and places it within broader contexts of public space and gender by exploring both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium.

A Taste of Art London
A Taste of Art London

Author: Jacqueline Cockburn

Publisher: Unicorn

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912690459

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A Taste of Art -Londontakes the reader on a journeyaround ten of the city's galleries, exploring ten significant artworks at eachlocation and offering an insightful 'taste' of art - the ultimate antidote tomuseum fatigue. The paintings, sculptures and objects selected from eachgallery focus on a different time period in the history of Western art - beginning with pieces from an 'Emerging Britain' at The British Museum and concluding with contemporary portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. 'Tasting notes'offer an engaging, narrative look at each work, accompanied by a quotation towhet the reader's appetite; whilst an illustrated 'key ingredient' unlocks themeaning and encourages the reader to not only look but more fully explore allone hundred pieces. The book also includes a map, a checklist to tick off what you see and specially commissioned illustrations throughout.

Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City
Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Author: Cecilie Sachs Olsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0429799160

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What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of ‘the urban’ as a set of existing and static structures. Adopting a practice-led approach, each chapter discusses case studies from across the world, reflecting on personal experiences as well as the work of other artists. While exposing the increasingly limiting constraints placed on public and socially engaged art by the dominance of commercial funding and neoliberal frameworks, the author stays optimistic about the potential of artistic practices to transcend neoliberal logics through alternative productions of space. Drawing upon a Lefebvrian framework of spatial practice and using a structuralist approach to challenge neoliberal structures, the book draws links between art, resistance, criticism, democracy, and political change. The book concludes by looking at how we might create a new course for socially engaged art within the neoliberal city. It will be of great interest to researchers in urban studies, urban geography, and architecture, as well as students who want to learn more about place-making, visual culture, performance theory, applied practice, and urban culture.

Out of the Sun
Out of the Sun

Author: Esi Edugyan

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1487009887

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An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.

The City as a Work of Art
The City as a Work of Art

Author: Donald J. Olsen

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780300042122

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Examines public buildings and homes in ninteenth-century London, Paris, and Vienna, and explains how each city reflected the characteristic lifestyle of its population.

London's Museums and Galleries
London's Museums and Galleries

Author: Eleanor Ross

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0711257531

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A curated guide to the best of London’s museums and galleries. From the obscure to the resplendent, Eleanor Ross acquaints you with the very best museums and galleries the city has to offer. Including world-famous art to quirky collections, London is host to a vast assortment of enlightening spaces just waiting to be explored. ​This compact and portable little book introduces locals and tourists alike to the capital’s cultural hot spots.

Little People in the City
Little People in the City

Author: Slinkachu

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780752226644

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He's like Banksy -- but not as big...They're Not Pets, Susan,' says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, 'Dreaming of Packing it all In'; and a tiny couple share a 'Last Kiss' against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight. Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, Little People in the City brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered. . . 'Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can't help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.' The Times