Living as Form Socially Engaged Art From, 1991-2011

Name: Living as Form Socially Engaged Art From, 1991-2011
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ISBN: 9780262017343

ISBN-10: 0262017342

ISBN-13: 9780262017343

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nato Thompson

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Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production--one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice. Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.618
Language: English

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York--based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied.