Re-imagining the city : art, globalization and urban spaces / edited by Kristen Sharp and Elizabeth Grierson.

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TextPublication details: Bristol : Intellect, 2013.Description: 274p. cmISBN:

9781841507316 (pbk.)
1841507318 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

307.76 GRI

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	307.76 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100466474

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Re - Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artifacts, and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities--how knowledge can be formed, framed, and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the construction of aesthetic meaning and value.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. vii)
Foreword (p. ix)
Chapter 1 Situating Art, Urban Space and Globalization (p. 1)
Section I Art and Urban Place (p. 17)
Chapter 2 Art and Culture: The global turn (p. 19)
Chapter 3 Catalysing our Cities: Architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise (p. 39)
Chapter 4 The Place of the Urban: Intersections between mobile and game cultures (p. 55)
Section II Transforming Spaces and Experiences of the City (p. 71)
Chapter 5 Driving the Sonic City (p. 73)
Chapter 6 'The Vacant Hotel': Site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne's EastLink Tollway (p. 93)
Chapter 7 The Transient City: The city as urbaness (p. 109)
Section III Exchange and Transaction (p. 129)
Chapter 8 'The Liquid Continent': Globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia (p. 131)
Chapter 9 Abdul Abdullah: Art, marginality and identity (p. 153)
Chapter 10 The Visible Hand: An urban accord for outsourced craft (p. 171)
Section IV Interventions in Public Space (p. 189)
Chapter 11 Border Memorials: When the local rejects the global (p. 191)
Chapter 12 Encountering the Elephant Parade: Intersections of aesthetics, ecology and economy (p. 209)
Chapter 13 Re-imagining Dutch Urban Life: The Blue House in Amsterdam (p. 225)
Conclusion (p. 245)
Chapter 14 Cities as Limitless Spaces of Simultaneity and Paradox (p. 247)
Author Bionotes (p. 261)
Index (p. 267)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Elizabeth Grierson is professor of art and philosophy in the School of Art, RMIT University, Australia.
Kristen Sharp is senior lecturer and coordinator of art history and theory in the School of Art, RMIT University, Australia.