Miles, Malcolm.

Urban Avant-Gardes : art, architecture and change / Malcolm Miles.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"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 practices 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 disciplines 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."--Jacket.

0415266874 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415266882 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415266871 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415266888 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203428139
0203428137

Art and society.
Architecture and society.
City planning Social aspects.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Art et société.
Architecture et société.
Urbanisme Aspect social.
Urbanisme Aspect de l'environnement.
Avant-garde.
Bouwkunst.
Stadsplanning.

Location: Library main 232227
Call No.: N72.S6 M5 2004
Status: Available