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Art and architecture : a place between / Jane Rendell.

By: Rendell, Jane, 1967-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: xv, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1845112229; 9781845112226.Subject(s): Art and architectureDDC classification: 709.04
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The last twenty years have seen fascinating developments in the nature of collaboration between artists and architects and in the approaches taken by artists making work intended for public spaces. These sophisticated projects go far beyond the standard 'art for architecture' remit, limited as it is to the addition of 'artworks' to already designed buildings, the work described here invites us to rethink the reputation that public art has acquired over the years amongst both the public and the artists themselves. Timely and wide-ranging, "Art and Architecture" explores the proliferation of recent pioneering work by both artists and architects that seeks to blur traditional boundaries between the two fields. Looking back to precedents in land and community art by artists from Robert Smithson and Walter de Maria to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys, Rendell discusses international projects by artists including Tacita Dean, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Paul Pfeiffer and Rachel Whiteread and architects as varied as Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Diller + Scofidio and Shigeru Ban.
She visits 'site-specific' artworks, interventions into existing buildings, galleries operating outside their physical limits and the best of collaborations between the fields. More than a survey, however, "Art and Architecture" also draws on the work of thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Michel de Certeau to probe the meanings of place, space and site.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Figures (p. vii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
  • Introduction: A Place Between (p. 1)
  • Section 1 Between Here and There (p. 13)
  • Introduction: Space, Place and Site (p. 15)
  • Chapter 1 Site, Non-Site, Off-Site (p. 23)
  • Chapter 2 The Expanded Field (p. 41)
  • Chapter 3 Space as Practised Place (p. 57)
  • Section 2 Between Now and Then (p. 73)
  • Introduction: Allegory, Montage and Dialectical Image (p. 75)
  • Chapter 1 Ruin as Allegory (p. 85)
  • Chapter 2 Insertion as Montage (p. 103)
  • Chapter 3 The 'What-has-been' and the Now (p. 121)
  • Section 3 Between One and Another (p. 145)
  • Introduction: Listening, Prepositions and Nomadism (p. 147)
  • Chapter 1 Collaboration (p. 153)
  • Chapter 2 Social Sculpture (p. 163)
  • Chapter 3 Walking (p. 181)
  • Conclusion: Criticism as Critical Spatial Practice (p. 191)
  • Endnotes (p. 195)
  • Bibliography (p. 215)
  • Index (p. 231)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jane Rendell is Reader in Architecture and Art and Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.