Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe (eBook)

The Work of Art in the Complex City

Whybrow Nicolas Whybrow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
208 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-350-16698-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 M nster 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 1-350-16698-7 / 1350166987
• ISBN-13: 978-1-350-16698-1 / 9781350166981