Conversation Pieces Community and Communication in Modern Art

Name: Conversation Pieces Community and Communication in Modern Art
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ISBN: 9780520275942

ISBN-10: 0520275942

ISBN-13: 9780520275942

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Grant H. Kester

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Some of the most innovative art of the past decade has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. In a parking garage in Oakland, California; on a pleasure boat on the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland; at a public market in Chiang Mai, Thailand--artists operating at the intersection of art and cultural activism have been developing new forms of collaboration with diverse audiences and communities. Their projects have addressed such issues as political conflict in Northern Ireland, gang violence on Chicago's West Side, and the problems of sex workers in Switzerland. Provocative, accessible, and engaging, this book, one of the first full-length studies on the topic, situates…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface to the 2013 Edition


Introduction



The Eyes of the Vulgar



Duration, Performativity, and Critique



Dialogical Aesthetics



A Critical Framework for Dialogical Practice



Community and Communicability


Notes


Index