Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Miles, Malcolm.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• City planning > Environmental aspects
• City planning > Social aspects
• Architecture and society
• Art and society
• Stadsplanning
• Bouwkunst
• Avant-garde

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-262) and index.

Contents

1871: spitting on Bonaparte -- 1912: red flags and revolutionary anthems -- 1938: Cap-Martin -- 1967: why tomorrow never dawns -- 1989: after the wall -- 1993 (i): in memories of dark times -- (ii): participation and provocation -- 2001(i): sustainabilities -- 2001(ii): cosmopolis.

ISBN

• 0415266874
• 0415266882
• 9780415266871
• 9780415266888
• 9780203428139
• 0203428137

LCCN

2003018038

OCLC

• ocm52860070
• 52860070
• SCSB-14530472

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library