- 224 pages
- English
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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.
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Index
Note: Page numbers for figures are shown in italics.
accessibility of art, 5
accountability, 138, 151, 166
Acting Up, 76
adventure playgrounds, 48–9, 59, 69
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), 76
aesthetic language of art world, 10–11, 185, 194, 196
Agis, Maurice, 43–4, 45–6, 53–4
Ahmed, Shahed, 150–1
Albany Empire, 66
anthropology and art, 12–13
Anthropology of Art, The (Morphy and Perkins), 12
antiracist movement, 52, 135
‘Architectonic Paint Rags’ (Wheeler-Early), 53
architectural service, 77, 79–80, 86–7
see also D&TAS
architecture, 104–5
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Malinowski), 152
art/Art, definition, 11–12, 13–14, 103, 154–5
art establishment, 81–2
see also curatoriat
Art for Offices Award, 146
Arti del designo, 14
Artism Lifeism, 53, 54, 131
artist ethnographers, 130–1, 152
artists
commissioned for environmental work, 165–9
community relationship, 187–8
as creator, 184
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- I: THE REJECTION
- II: THE SHAPING
- III: INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Conclusion: Of Art and Community
- References
- Index