Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe
The Work of Art in the Complex City
Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-37520-8 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-37520-8 (ISBN)
Through its examination of five quite different art events in cities across Europe, Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe offers a compelling exploration of how public art takes place in the modern city. Roughly tracing a central horizontal trajectory from the western to the eastern edges of the continent, Nicolas Whybrow considers the Folkestone Triennial in the UK, Sculpture Projects Münster in Germany, the Venice Biennale in Italy, Belgrade’s Mikser Festival in Serbia and the Istanbul Biennial in Turkey.
Writing within the context of a thirty-year international ‘biennial boom’, Whybrow interrogates the extent to which biennial events and their artworks seek to engage with the socio-cultural and political complexity of cities, in particular the work that is involved in this relationship. With its focus on Europe, he also tells a composite story of continental difference at a moment of high tension, centering on issues of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union.
Writing within the context of a thirty-year international ‘biennial boom’, Whybrow interrogates the extent to which biennial events and their artworks seek to engage with the socio-cultural and political complexity of cities, in particular the work that is involved in this relationship. With its focus on Europe, he also tells a composite story of continental difference at a moment of high tension, centering on issues of migration, political populism and uncertainty around the future form of the European Union.
Nicolas Whybrow is Professor of Urban Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the editor of Performing Cities (2014) and the author of Art and the City (I.B. Tauris, 2011).
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: European Biennials, Complex Cities, and the Work of Art
1. Folkestone Turned: of Fault-lines and Fairy-tales
2. Sculpture Trials, Sculpture Tales: Münster’s ‘Rupture Projects’ and the Time of Art
3. ‘Viva Venezia Viva’: Treasures from the Wreck of the ‘Unbelievable City’
4. Belgrade Conversations: Mikser, its Festival and the City’s ‘descent to its rivers’, Nicolas Whybrow with Marko Jobst and Marijana Cvetkovic
5. Neighbourhood Watch: Building and Dwelling in Istanbul
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 13.02.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 30 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-37520-9 / 1350375209 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-37520-8 / 9781350375208 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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