
Community Art
An Anthropological Perspective
Kate Crehan(Author)
Berg Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84788-833-4 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective.The book focuses on the forty year history of Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played a major part in the 1970s struggle to carve out a space for community arts in Britain. Turning their back on the world of gallery art, the fine-artist founders of Free Form were determined to use their visual expertise to connect, through collaborative art projects, with the working-class people excluded by the established art world. In seeking to give the residents of poor communities a greater role in shaping their built environment, the artists' aesthetic practice would be transformed.Community Art examines this process of aesthetic transformation and its rejection of the individualized practice of the gallery artist. The Free Form story calls into question common understandings of the categories of "art," "expertise," and "community," and makes this story relevant beyond late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century Britain.
Reviews / Votes
The first historical ethnography of community arts, essential reading for students and scholars interested in the growing field of the anthropology of art. - Roger Sansi-Roca, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of LondonMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84788-833-4 (9781847888334)
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Person
Kate Crehan is Professor of Anthropology, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Content
PrefaceI. THE REJECTIONChapter 1: Art Inside and Outside the GalleryII. THE SHAPINGChapter 2: Moving Beyond the GalleryChapter 3: From Performance to the EnvironmentChapter 4: Community Arts and the Democratisation of ExpertiseChapter 5: Responding to Local Needs: GoldsmithsChapter 6: Making Art Collaboratively: ProvostChapter 7: Theoretical and Political LocationsIII. INTO THE 21ST CENTURYChapter 8: Free Form in 2004Chapter 9: A Carnival and a Standing StoneConclusion: Art and the CommunityBibliography