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Community art : an anthropological perspective / Kate Crehan.

Crehan, Kate A. F. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781847888334 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0857850555 (individual e-book)
  • ISBN: 1847888348 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 9780857850553 (individual e-book)
  • ISBN: 9781847888341 (cloth)
  • ISBN: 184788833X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: English ed.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Berg, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.
Subject:
Free Form Arts Trust (Great Britain)
Artists and community > Great Britain.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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List of Figures
vii
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
I THE REJECTION
1 Art Inside and Outside the Gallery
3(26)
The Art World
5(6)
Art with a Capital A
11(7)
The Art World and Common Sense
18(4)
Charges and Briefs
22(7)
II THE SHAPING
2 Moving beyond the Gallery
29(28)
Beginnings
29(6)
An Art World Brief
35(3)
Into the `Community'
38(2)
A Warmly Persuasive Word
40(1)
Back to the Art World
41(3)
`What's It For, Mister?'
44(3)
Freedom and Structure
47(4)
Fun Events v. Artism Lifeism
51(6)
3 From Performance to the Environment
57(22)
`I'm Afraid This Whole Horrible Box Takes Priority'
58(1)
From Visual Systems to Free Form Arts Trust
59(2)
Performance
61(11)
Dead Fish and Totem Poles
72(4)
The Environmental Turn
76(3)
4 Community Arts and the Democratization of Expertise
79(16)
The Rise and Fall of Community Arts and Community Architecture
80(7)
Early Environmental Work in Hackney
87(4)
Providing Access to Expertise
91(4)
5 Responding to Local Needs: Goldsmiths
95(16)
Football and Mosiacs
98(5)
Of Distraction and Expression
103(8)
6 Making Art Collaboratively: Provost
111(18)
Paths and Plantings
111(4)
The Mural
115(9)
`Everybody Was Involved in the Mural'
124(1)
The View from the Arts Council
125(4)
7 Theoretical and Political Locations
129(12)
Artists and Ethnography
129(2)
Locating the Free Form Artists
131(6)
The Coming of the Audit Culture
137(4)
III INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
8 Free Form in 2004
141(16)
A Professional Organization
141(7)
The Norwich Commission
148(4)
The Catton Grove Brief
152(5)
9 A Carnival and a Standing Stone
157(40)
The Catton Clear Day Carnival
158(4)
`It's Personalized the Rubbish Collection a Bit More'
162(3)
The Fiddlewood Project
165(1)
Selecting an Artist
165(6)
The Standing Stone
171(6)
`It's Much Better Than That Angel of the North'
177(3)
The End of the Journey
180(1)
Conclusion: Of Art and Community
181(1)
Artists in the `Community'
181(5)
New Genre Public Art
186(3)
The Free Artist and the `Nonexclusive Audience'
189(4)
Community Art and the `Community'
193(4)
References 197(6)
Index 203