Art and the city

214 Pages·2011·39.491 MB·English

by  Whybrow, Nicolas

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Nicolas Whybrow isAssociateProfessorinthe
SchoolofTheatre,PerformanceandCulturalPolicy
StudiesattheUniversityofWarwick,UK.Hisbooks
includeStreetScenes:Brecht,BenjaminandBerlinand,
aseditor,PerformanceandtheContemporaryCity:
AnInterdisciplinaryReader.
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Art
and the
City
Nicolas Whybrow
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Publishedin2011byI.B.Tauris&CoLtd
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Tomymother,FelicitasWhybrow,withthanks.
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Talkingart 1
Encounteringart 3
Theurbanbody 7
SECTION 1
1 Thefutureofartisurban 11
Seeingthestreet 11
Work/play 15
City-specificart 22
Relationalart 27
Relationalbodies 30
2 Relationalwriting 35
Spatialpractice 35
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viii A R T A N D T H E C I T Y
Situatedencounters 40
Writingartandthecity 42
SECTION 2
3 WalkingwithWentworthetal. 53
Talkingthewalk 53
Footprints 66
Mu¨nsterfootwork 75
4 Londonplayingfields 97
Urbanmobilisations 97
Runningfree 110
Artandplay 125
5 Berlin,Vienna:PerformingHolocaustmemory 139
Notjustagame 139
Thesilent‘H’word 152
Notes 167
Bibliography 181
Index 191
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Figures
SECTION 2
CHAPTER 3 WALKING WITH WENTWORTH ET AL.
1. WalkingwithRichardWentworth,LambethRoad,
London,29June2007. 57
2. WalkingwithRichardWentworth,LambethBridge,
London,29June2007. 62
3. GeorgeRickey,DreiRotierendeQuadrate,Mu¨nster,
19July1975. 76
4. DominiqueGonzalez-Foerster,AMu¨nsterNovel,
Mu¨nster,20July2007. 77
5. MichaelAsher,InstallationMu¨nster (Caravan),Mu¨nster,
21July2007. 78
6. DonaldJudd,Untitled (1977),Mu¨nster,20July2007. 79
7. ClaesOldenburg,GiantPoolBalls(1977),Mu¨nster,
20July2007. 80
8. PawelAlthamer,Path,Mu¨nster,20July2007. 88
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x A R T A N D T H E C I T Y
9. PawelAlthamer,Path,Mu¨nster,20July2007. 89
10. GustavMetzger,Aequivalenz-ShatteredStones,Mu¨nster,
20July2007. 94
11. GustavMetzger,Aequivalenz-ShatteredStones,Mu¨nster,
20July2007. 95
CHAPTER 4 LONDON PLAYING FIELDS
12. MarkQuinn,AlisonLapperPregnant,TrafalgarSquare,
London,20April2007. 108
13. MarkQuinn,AlisonLapperPregnant,TrafalgarSquare,
London,20April2007. 109
14. MarkQuinn,AlisonLapperPregnant,TrafalgarSquare,
London,20April2007. 109
15. GraffitiattheSouthBankCentre,London,4March
2009. 115
16. SkateboarderattheSouthBankCentre,London,
4March2009. 116
17. TraceursonWaterlooBridge,London,26May2007. 118
18. AntonyGormley,EventHorizon,SouthBankCentre,
London,26May2007. 130
19. AntonyGormley,EventHorizon,WaterlooBridge,
London,26May2007. 131
20. AntonyGormley,EventHorizon,RoyalNationalTheatre,
London,26May2007. 132
21. CarstenHo¨ller,TestSite,TateModern,London,
9December2006. 136
22. CarstenHo¨ller,TestSite,TateModern,London,
9December2006. 137