Art and the City

by Nicolas Whybrow

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices. 'Art and the City' takes this observation as its cue to examine the role of art against a backdrop of globally rising urban populations, taking into account the more recent performative and relational 'turns' of art that have sought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845114663
• ISBN13: 9781845114664
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"