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Art and the Global City

Public Space, Transformative Media, and the Politics of Urban Rhetoric

Gary Gumpert editor James T Andrews editor Margaret R LaWare editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:31st May '22

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Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics (communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city" by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities (from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these case studies focus the reader’s attention to the evolution of art in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions and conglomerations in the urban landscape.

“The contributors to Art and the Global City capture an historic moment when traditional and innovative approaches to public art are reshaping cities around the globe. Storytelling through various forms—physical and digital, permanent and transient, always performative, and interactive—saturate once moribund urban spaces. Collectively and individually, such art in cities encourage connectivity as opposed to hierarchy. As this volume’s insightful essays demonstrate, today’s global cities constitute an emerging liquid polis redefining urban citizenship.” —Blair A. Ruble, Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Author of The Muse of Urban Delirium
Art and the Global City: Public Space, Transformative Media, and the Politics of Urban Rhetoric makes original and significant contributions to how we think about public art as a form of media and communication. The authors extend the idea of ‘communicative cities,’ showing how public art originates, gets commissioned (through municipal and political processes of recruiting artists, determining sites, negotiating fees, etc.), produced, and responded to by urban audiences, and how it transforms physical and social environments. The authors, scholars from different academic disciplines, explore a wide and fascinating range of urban art projects—everything from ‘light art’ to ‘ghost signs’ to neighborhood murals. I highly recommend this new book for anyone interested in how public artists help urban residents mediate and negotiate modern citiscapes.” —Kenneth Zagacki, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University

ISBN: 9781433181672

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 582g

342 pages

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