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ISBN13:9789819960415
ISBN10:981996041X
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:259 pages
Size:210x148 mm
Language:English
Illustrations: 2 Illustrations, black & white; 10 Illustrations, color
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Art in the City, the City in Art

 
Edition number: 2024
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Short description:

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the

need for rational-functional order and art?s imaginative deviations from the topdown

structures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book

situates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and

possibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create

spontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban

apparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework is

used to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,

performative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war art

movements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.

The book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the city

construct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters

where new modes of expression can emerge.

This Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.

The book aims to delineate how the city?as concept and construct?is made

visible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,

researchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art and

urban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issues

have been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to an

evolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city?s

default construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in public

spaces.





 



Elisha Masemann is an independent researcher and educator and holds a PhD

in art history from the University of Auckland (2018). Masemann has lectured in

the medical humanities at the University of Auckland and has received research

awards in New Zealand and Germany, including the Kate Edger Charitable Trust

Postdoctoral Research Award and a Women in Research (WiRe) Postdoctoral

Fellowship at Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. With Cameron Cartiere

(Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and Leon Tan (Unitec), Masemann coauthored

?Mapping art in the public realm 2008-2018? in The Routledge companion

to art in the public realm (2021).

Long description:

This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the



need for rational-functional order and art?s imaginative deviations from the topdown



structures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book



situates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and



possibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create



spontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban



apparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework is



used to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,



performative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war art



movements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.



The book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the city



construct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters



 



where new modes of expression can emerge.



This Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.



The book aims to delineate how the city?as concept and construct?is made



visible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,



researchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art and



urban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issues



have been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to an



evolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city?s



default construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in public



spaces.



 



 



 

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Establishing the city?s ?ground rules?.- Part I: Hardware.- Chapter 2: A rational city programme.- Chapter 3:Critical responses to the ?city plan?.- Chapter 4: Art?s non-rational uses of the city.- Part II: Software.- Chapter 5: Ideology and the city.- Chapter 6: The body and the city.- Chapter 7: The everyday city.- Chapter 8: Disrupting ?normalcy? through art.- Part III: Networks.- Chapter 9: Networks that create control in the city.- Chapter 10: Foundations for cognitive dissonance.- Chapter 11: Art?s intervention in the society of control.- Chapter 12: Epilogue: An ongoing struggle between ?art in the city, the city in art?.