Urban encounters : art and the public / edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier.

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TextSeries: Culture of citiesPublisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780773550070
0773550070
9780773550087
0773550089

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Additional physical formats: Urban encounters.:DDC classification:

701/.030971 23

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N8846.C2 U73 2017eb

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cci1icc
coll13

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Contents:

Part One : Performing art publics -- Part Two : Making art, making the city -- Part Three : Meeting art in public.

Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Part One : Performing art publics -- Part Two : Making art, making the city -- Part Three : Meeting art in public.

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