If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: A Project by Martha Rosier

by Martha Rosler and Dia Art Foundation

Book Overview

With contributions by: Christine Benglia Bevington Marie Annick Brown Andrew Byard Cen n The Chinatown History Project Clinton Coalition of Concern Rosalyn Deutsche Dan Graham and Robin Hurst Alexander Kluge The Mad Housers Tony Masso The Nation Richard Plunz William Price Yvonne Rainer Mel Rosenthal Allan Sekula Camilo Jos Vergara Dan Wiley

Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156584498X
• ISBN13: 9781565844988
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

indispensable resource

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in questions of urbanism and housing in advanced societies, from architecture to urban planning to homelessness. It is especially useful for the discussion of some of the ways that artists, architects, activists, and planners have responded to successive city and housing crises. It offers theoretical and historical documents but also art projects and transcripts of public forums. I found it very helpful in thinking about the issues and in suggesting ways to address similar questions.

Of some interest

Economically privlidged white males who edit books like this (i. e., Brian Wallis, who edits many such compiliations) need to recognize that it is Difference, not seperation from white male patriarchal paradigms, which constructs the most significant art work today. Somehow, white males always make it seem like it's about themselves....