{"product_id":"9789819960415","title":"The Contemporary City","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Contemporary City\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMasemann, Elisha\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eneed for rational-functional order and art’s imaginative deviations from the topdown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003estructures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esituates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003epossibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003espontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eapparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part framework is\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eused to discuss this push-pull dynamic and to assess the strategies of shock,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eperformative embodiment and intervention that emerged in post-war art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003emovements and in contemporary performance and participatory art practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book examines how the disturbances introduced by artists throw the city\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003econstruct into sharp relief, making it visible and activating momentary encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewhere new modes of expression can emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis Book offers a new approach to interdisciplinary studies of art and urbanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book aims to delineate how the city—as concept and construct—is made\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003evisible through artistic practice and in turn challenged or interrogated. Students,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eresearchers and professionals with an interest in the interaction between art and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eurban studies will discover a new perspective on how urban conditions and issues\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ehave been addressed through artistic practice. The book contributes to an\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eevolving discourse in the urban humanities through an exposition of the city’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003edefault construct that is made visible or reimagined through visual art in public\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003espaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2024-04-01\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789819960415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-981-99-6042-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 259\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45383541555340,"sku":"9789819960415","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819960415.jpg?v=1777996838","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819960415","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}