224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
PrefaceI. THE REJECTIONChapter 1: Art Inside and Outside the GalleryII. THE SHAPINGChapter 2: Moving Beyond the GalleryChapter 3: From Performance to the EnvironmentChapter 4: Community Arts and the Democratisation of ExpertiseChapter 5: Responding to Local Needs: GoldsmithsChapter 6: Making Art Collaboratively: ProvostChapter 7: Theoretical and Political LocationsIII. INTO THE 21ST CENTURYChapter 8: Free Form in 2004Chapter 9: A Carnival and a Standing StoneConclusion: Art and the CommunityBibliography
Biography
Kate Crehan is Professor of Anthropology, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
The first historical ethnography of community arts, essential reading for students and scholars interested in the growing field of the anthropology of art. - Roger Sansi-Roca, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
