{"product_id":"elisha-masemann-art-in-the-city-the-city-in-art-9789819960446","title":"Art in the City, the City in Art","description":"This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nneed for rational-functional order and art's imaginative deviations from the topdown\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstructures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsituates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and\n\u003cbr\u003e\npossibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create\n\u003cbr\u003e\nspontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban\n\u003cbr\u003e\napparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework is\n\u003cbr\u003e\nused to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nperformative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war art\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmovements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the city\n\u003cbr\u003e\nconstruct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhere new modes of expression can emerge.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book aims to delineate how the city-as concept and construct-is made\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvisible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nresearchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nurban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issues\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhave been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to an\n\u003cbr\u003e\nevolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city's\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndefault construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in public\n\u003cbr\u003e\nspaces.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53687936844118,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/elisha-masemann-art-in-the-city-the-city-in-art-9789819960446","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}