Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson (English) P

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A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.

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A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production-one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice.Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of color images. The artists include the Danish collective Superflex, who empower communities to challenge corporate interest; Turner Prize nominee Jeremy Deller, creator of socially and politically charged performance works; Women on Waves, who provide abortion services and information to women in regions where the procedure is illegal; and Santiago Cirugeda, an architect who builds temporary structures to solve housing problems.Living as Form contains commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists who look at this phenomenon from a global perspective and broaden the range of what constitutes this form.Contributing authorsClaire Bishop, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Anne Pasternak, Nato Thompson

Author Biography

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York-based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists- Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied.

Details ISBN0262534398 Pages 264 Audience Age 18 Publisher MIT Press Ltd Year 2017 ISBN-10 0262534398 ISBN-13 9780262534390 Format Paperback Imprint MIT Press Subtitle Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States Edited by Nato Thompson Media Book DEWEY 709.04 Affiliation Creative Time Position Artistic Director Series The MIT Press Short Title Living As Form Language English UK Release Date 2017-08-11 Publication Date 2017-08-11 AU Release Date 2017-08-11 NZ Release Date 2017-08-11 US Release Date 2017-08-11 Author Nato Thompson Alternative 9780262017343 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Illustrations 250 color illus., 50 b&w illus.; 300 Illustrations We've got this

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