URBAN AVANT-GARDES by Malcolm Miles ( 9780415266871 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

URBAN AVANT-GARDES
ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CHANGE

By:

Malcolm Miles

Format:

Hardback

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£180.00

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£162.00

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ISBN 10:

0415266874

ISBN 13:

9780415266871

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

26 February, 2004

Pages:

288

Description:

Environmentalists, whether engaged in direct action or creating new models of sustainable industry and settlement, propose radical changes in the values and organization of society. This title explores if new practices in the arts and architecture can reshape values and create a new consciousness.

Synopsis:

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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35 b&w photos

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Routledge

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