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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789131203321

Titolo

Re-imagining the city : art, globalization and urban spaces / / edited by Elizabeth Grierson and Kristen Sharp ; Ellen Thomas, cover designer ; Bethan Ball, production manager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Intellect, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78320-310-2

1-78320-309-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GriersonElizabeth

SharpKristen

ThomasEllen

BallBethan

Disciplina

307.764090511

Soggetti

Cities and towns in art

Arts and globalization

Arts and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Chapter 1: Situating Art, Urban Space and Globalization""; ""Section I: Art and Urban Place""; ""Chapter 2: Art and Culture: The global turn""; ""Chapter 3: Catalysing our Cities: Architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise""; ""Chapter 4: The Place of the Urban: Intersections between mobile and game cultures""; ""Section II: Transforming Spaces and Experiences of the City""; ""Chapter 5: Driving the Sonic City""

""Chapter 6: �The Vacant Hotel�: Site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne�s EastLink Tollway""""Chapter 7: The Transient City: The city as urbaness""; ""Section III: Exchange and Transaction""; ""Chapter 8: �The Liquid Continent�: Globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia""; ""Chapter 9: Abdul Abdullah: Art, marginality



and identity""; ""Chapter 10: The Visible Hand: An urban accord for outsourced craft""; ""Section IV: Interventions in Public Space""

""Chapter 11: Border Memorials: When the local rejects the global""""Chapter 12: Encountering the Elephant Parade: Intersections of aesthetics, ecology and economy""; ""Chapter 13: Re-imagining Dutch Urban Life: The Blue House in Amsterdam""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 14: Cities as Limitless Spaces of Simultaneity and Paradox""; ""Author Bionotes""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""