9781934978597-1934978590-Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook

Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook

ISBN-13: 9781934978597
ISBN-10: 1934978590
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Pablo Helguera
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Format: Paperback 91 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781934978597
ISBN-10: 1934978590
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Pablo Helguera
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Format: Paperback 91 pages

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Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (ISBN-13: 9781934978597 and ISBN-10: 1934978590), written by authors Pablo Helguera, was published by Lightning Source Inc in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other History (Arts History & Criticism, Art, Encyclopedias & Subject Guides) books. You can easily purchase or rent Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.12.

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"For too long Social Practice has been the notoriously flimsy flipside of market-based contemporary art: a world of hand-wringing practitioners easily satisfied with the feeling of 'doing good' in a community, and unaware that their quasi-activist, anti-formalist positions in fact have a long artistic heritage and can be critically dissected using the tools of art and theatre history. Helguera's spunky primer promises to offer a much-needed critical compass for those adrift in the expanded social field." -Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art and Exhibition History, CUNY, and author of Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship "This is an extremely timely and thoughtful reference book. Drawn from empirical and extensive experience and research, it provides a curriculum and framework for thinking about the complexity of socially engaged practices. Locating the methodologies of this work in between disciplines, Helguera draws on histories of performance, pedagogy, sociology, ethnography, linguistics, community and public practices. Rather than propose a system he exposes the temporalities necessary to make these situations possible and resonant. This is a tool that will allow us to consider the difficulties of making socially engaged art and move closer to finding a language through which we can represent and discuss its impact." -Sally Tallant, Artistic Director, Liverpool Biennial "Helguera has produced a highly readable book that absolutely needs to be in the back pocket of anyone interested in teaching or learning about socially engaged art" -Tom Finkelpearl, Director of the Queens Museum, New York, and author of Dialogues in Public Art

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