TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radice,Martha
AU  - Boudreault-Fournier,Alexandrine
TI  - Urban encounters: art and the public 
T2  - The culture of cities
SN  - 9780773550070
AV  - N8846.C2 U73 2017eb
U1  - 701/.030971 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Public art
KW  - Canada
KW  - Art public
KW  - ART
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index; Part One : Performing art publics -- Part Two : Making art, making the city -- Part Three : Meeting art in public
N2  - "Public art is on the urban agenda. Given recent claims about the importance of creativity to urban prosperity, opportunities for installing or performing art in the city have multiplied. As cities strive to appear culturally dynamic, the stakes of artistic production rise higher than ever. Exploring the interactions between art and the public in Canadian cities, Urban Encounters features writing by artists, architects, curators, anthropologists, geographers, and urban studies specialists. They show how people and places affect the structure and content of public artworks, what kinds of urban spaces and socialities are generated through art, and how to investigate and interpret encounters between art and its viewers in the city. Discussing a variety of art forms, including mobile cinemas, street improvisation, audiovisual investigations, and assembled objects, the contributors treat public artworks not just as aesthetic installations, but as agents that participate in the social and cultural evolution of cities. Using original, hands-on approaches, Urban Encounters reveals how art in the urban public generates encounters that can transform both the city itself and the ways that people relate to it."--
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