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Author |
: Malcolm Miles |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415266874 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415266871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Avant-Gardes by : Malcolm Miles
Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions. This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and profiles a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The author brings together material from a wide range of disciplines to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators. Distinctive in that it places works of the imagination in the political and cultural context of environmentalism, this book asks how cultural work might contribute to radical social change. It is equally concerned with theory and practice - part one providing a theoretical framework and part two illustrating such frameworks with examples.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1280025441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781280025440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Avant-Gardes and Social Transformation by :
Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this mean? Urban Avant-Gardes attempts to contribute to debate on these questions, by looking back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and by profiling a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The first section spans the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries, exploring the avant-gardes of Realism, early twentieth-century art and the architectural avant-garde of Modernism. Section two examines the period which stretches from the build-up to the events of 1968 to 1993, focusing particularly on the landmarks of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The third section begins in 1998 and asks whether there is a possibility for a new, perhaps 'green' avant-garde today; and whether - if there is - this might suggest a new attitude to, and construction of, a public sphere.; Urban Avant-Gardes brings together material from a wide range of disciplin to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators.
Author |
: Malcolm Miles |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 598 |
Release |
: 2004-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134500048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134500041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Avant-Gardes by : Malcolm Miles
Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions. This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and profiles a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The author brings together material from a wide range of disciplines to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators. Distinctive in that it places works of the imagination in the political and cultural context of environmentalism, this book asks how cultural work might contribute to radical social change. It is equally concerned with theory and practice - part one providing a theoretical framework and part two illustrating such frameworks with examples.
Author |
: Ignaz Strebel |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1199754441 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Miles, Malcolm, Urban Avant-Gardes by : Ignaz Strebel
Author |
: Anna Bokov |
Publisher |
: Park Publishing (WI) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3038601349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783038601340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Avant-garde as Method by : Anna Bokov
"The groundbreaking new study on the early Soviet Union's Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present day."--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Jean-Thomas Tremblay |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2021-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438485171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438485174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Avant-Gardes in Crisis by : Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance's very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of life that accelerated in the 1970s—a crisis that encompasses living-wage rarity, deadly epidemics, and other aspects of an uneven management of vitality indexed by race, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. The contributors collectively argue that a minoritarian concept of the avant-garde, one attuned to uneven patterns of resource depletion and infrastructural failure (broadly conceived), clarifies the interplay between art and politics as it has played out, for instance, in discussions of art's autonomy or institutionality. Writ large, this book seeks to restore the historical and political context for the debates on the avant-garde that have raged since the 1970s.
Author |
: Erica Stein |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2021-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438486642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438486642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeing Symphonically by : Erica Stein
Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seeing Symphonically shows how a group of independent experimental, documentary, and feature films made in and about late modern New York City did just this. Between 1939 and 1964, as the city was being utterly remade by a combination of urban renewal projects, suburbanization, and high-rise public housing, the New York avant-garde reinvented the city symphony, a modernist form that depicted a day in the life of an urban environment through complex montage, optical effects, and street portraiture. Erica Stein documents how these New York City symphonies subverted and critiqued urban redevelopment through their aesthetics, particularly their rhythms, and, through those same rhythms, envisioned a world in which urban inhabitants have the absolute right to remake the city according to their needs, outside the demands of capital.
Author |
: Manfredo Tafuri |
Publisher |
: MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262700395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262700399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sfera E Il Labirinto by : Manfredo Tafuri
"Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."
Author |
: Timothy Brown |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2011-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857450791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857450794 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between the Avant-garde and the Everyday by : Timothy Brown
The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term “1968” can by no means be confined under the rubric of “protest,” understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to “1968” frequently involved attempts to elaborate resistance within the realm of culture generally, and in the arts in particular. This blurring of the boundary between art and politics was a characteristic development of the political activism of the postwar period. This volume brings together a group of essays concerned with the multifaceted link between culture and politics, highlighting lesser-known case studies and opening new perspectives on the development of anti-authoritarian politics in Europe from the 1950s to the fall of Communism and beyond.
Author |
: Danilo Udovicki-Selb |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2020-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474299855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474299857 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes by : Danilo Udovicki-Selb
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional scholarly narrative, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it is widely considered to have been driven underground. In doing so, this book provides an essential perspective on how to analyse, evaluate, and “re-imagine” the history of modernist expression in its cultural context. It offers a new understanding of ways in which 20th century social revolutions and their totalitarian sequels inflected the discourse of both modernity and modernism. The book relies on close analyses of archival documents and architectural works. Many of the documents have been rarely – if ever – discussed in English before, while the architectural projects include iconic works such as the Palace of Soviets and the Soviet Pavilion at the Paris 1937 World Exposition, as well as remarkable works that until now have been neglected by architectural historians inside and outside Russia. In a fascinating final chapter, it also reveals for the first time the details of Frank Lloyd Wright's triumphant welcome at the First Congress of Soviet Architects in Moscow in 1937, at the height of Stalin's Terror.