Overview
- The first sustained dialogue between emerging forms of urbanity and art practice from an art historical perspective
- The only book that attends equally to discourses of urban development and strategies of urban intervention in art
- A book that situates art interventions in urban space as responses to the instrument of top-down urban planning
Part of the book series: The Contemporary City (TCONTCI)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the
need for rational-functional order and art’s imaginative deviations from the topdown
structures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book
situates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and
possibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create
spontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban
apparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework is
used to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,
performative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war art
movements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.
The book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the city
construct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters
where new modes of expression can emerge.
This Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.
The book aims to delineate how the city—as concept and construct—is made
visible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,
researchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art and
urban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issues
have been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to an
evolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city’s
default construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in public
spaces.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elisha Masemann is an independent researcher and educator and holds a PhD
in art history from the University of Auckland (2018). Masemann has lectured in
the medical humanities at the University of Auckland and has received research
awards in New Zealand and Germany, including the Kate Edger Charitable Trust
Postdoctoral Research Award and a Women in Research (WiRe) Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster. With Cameron Cartiere
(Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and Leon Tan (Unitec), Masemann coauthored
‘Mapping art in the public realm 2008-2018’ in The Routledge companion
to art in the public realm (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art in the City, the City in Art
Authors: Elisha Masemann
Series Title: The Contemporary City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6042-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6041-5Published: 01 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6044-6Due: 02 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6042-2Published: 31 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-5463
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5471
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 259
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Urban History