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Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Sachs Olsen, Cecilie

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Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 0367634864
ISBN13: 9780367634865
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 30 2020
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of 'the urban' as a set of existing and static structures. Adopting a practice-led approach, each chapter discusses case studies from across the world, reflecting on personal experiences as well as the work of other artists. While exposing the increasingly limiting constraints placed on public and socially engaged art by the dominance of commercial funding and neoliberal frameworks, the author stays optimistic about the potential of artistic practices to transcend neoliberal logics through alternative productions of space. Drawing upon a Lefebvrian framework of spatial practice and using a structuralist approach to challenge neoliberal structures, the book draws links between art, resistance, criticism, democracy, and political change.

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