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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811127703321

Autore

Whybrow Nicolas

Titolo

Art and the city / / Nicolas Whybrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : I.B. Tauris

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

0-7556-0408-3

0-85773-147-5

1-283-04817-5

9786613048172

0-85771-882-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

709.1732

Soggetti

Art and anthropology

Public art

Art and society

Art - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section 1; Section 2; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 whic.