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URBAN AVANT-GARDES
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Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive
failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this mean?
Urban Avant-Gardes
attempts to contribute to the debate on these questions,
by looking back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, by examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde
cultural interventions, and by profiling a range of contemporary cases of radical
cultural practices.
The book begins with a reconsideration of the first avant-garde of the
nineteenth century, followed by commentaries on the avant-gardes of early
Modernist art and architecture. It then engages with the theories as well as
cultural practices of the 1960s, and seeks to identify flaws in the concept of
an avant-garde that may still disable cultural interventions. Moving on through
the 1990s, the book interrogates practices between art, architecture and theory.
It does not propose a new avant-garde but does find hope in emerging prac-
tices that in various ways engage with the agendas of environmentalism and
social justice. At this point the terms art and architecture, as well as avant-
garde, cease to be useful; what emerges is a need to re-imagine a public sphere.
Urban Avant-Gardes
brings together material from a wide range of disci-
plines in the arts and social sciences to argue for cultural intervention as a
means to radical change, while recognising that most such efforts in the past
have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators.
Malcolm Miles
is Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth,
author of
Art, Space and the City
and co-editor of
The City Cultures Reader
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URBAN
AVANT-GARDES
ART, ARCHITECTURE
AND CHANGE
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Malcolm Miles
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First published 2004
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 2004 Malcolm Miles
All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any
form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying
and recording, or in any information storage
or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from
the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Miles, Malcolm.
Urban Avant-Gardes: art, architecture
and change / Malcolm Miles.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Art and society. 2. Architecture and society.
3. City planning – Social aspects.
4. City planning – Environmental aspects.
I. Title.
N72.S6M55 2004
720

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2003018038
ISBN 0-203-42813-7 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-43870-1 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0–415–26687–4 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–26688–2 (pbk)

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