Description:
This book brings together a host of academics who seek to expand the notion of a 'communicative city' by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global landscape.
Review Quotes: "The contributors to Art and the Global City capture an historic moment when traditional and innovative approaches to public art are reshaping cities around the globe. Storytelling through various forms--physical and digital, permanent and transient, always performative, and interactive--saturate once moribund urban spaces. Collectively and individually, such art in cities encourage connectivity as opposed to hierarchy. As this volume's insightful essays demonstrate, today's global cities constitute an emerging liquid polis redefining urban citizenship." --Blair A. Ruble, Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Author of The Muse of Urban Delirium