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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] 1 1 URBAN AVANT-GARDES 11 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 . 11 1 1 URBAN AVANT-GARDES ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CHANGE 11 Malcolm Miles 11 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 ′ .1 03–dc22 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) ′ [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |