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Hardcover | $39.95 Trade | £27.95 | ISBN: 9780262017343 | 280 pp. | 8 x 11 in | 250 color illus., 50 b&w illus.| February 2012
Overview
Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production—one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice.
