Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1976
Genre: Art and society
ISBN:

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Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher: Batsford
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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"As well as providing a theoretical framework, Art and Social Function documents two large-scale projects - one in west London and the other in Edinburgh - and introduces Meta Filter, an interactive machine designed to develop the relationships between individuals, and between individuals and groups through the examination of differing perceptions of social coding structures. The artist provides a new introduction explaining the context in which this important work was developed."--BOOK JACKET.

Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1976
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Douments two of Willat's large scale projects, one in West London, the other in Edinburgh.

The social function of art

The social function of art
Author: Radhakamal Mukerjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1971
Genre:
ISBN:

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Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art
Author: Sharon Irish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1350197602

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This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

The Aesthetic Function of Art

The Aesthetic Function of Art
Author: Gary Iseminger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501727303

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How can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the informal institution of the artworld is to promote aesthetic communication. He concludes that the fundamental criteria for evaluating a work of art as a work of art are aesthetic. After considering other practices and institutions that have aesthetic dimensions and other things that the practice of art does, Iseminger suggests that art is better at promoting aesthetic communication than other practices are and that art is better at promoting aesthetic communication than it is at anything else. Iseminger bases his work on a distinction often blurred in contemporary aesthetics, between art as a set of products"works of art"and art as an informal institution and social practice—the artworld. Focusing initially on the function of the artworld rather than the function of works of art, he blends elements from two of the most currently influential philosophical approaches to art, George Dickie's institutional theory and Monroe Beardsley's aesthetic theory, and provides a new foundation for a traditional account of what makes good art.

A Restless Art

A Restless Art
Author: François Matarasso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9781903080207

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From the contents:00I. Participatory art now01. The normalisation of participatory art 0II. What is participatory art?02. Concepts03. Defnitions04. The intentions of participatory art 05. The art of participatory art 06. The ethics of participatory art 0III. Where does participatory art come from?07. Making history 08. Deep roots 09. Community art and the cultural revolution (1968 to 1988) 010. Participatory art and appropriation (1988 to 2008).

The Social Impact of the Arts

The Social Impact of the Arts
Author: Eleonora Belfiore
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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An intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to bring about personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in both the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public sphere of politics and social distinction.

Art as Social Practice

Art as Social Practice
Author: xtine burrough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000546144

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With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices. Suzanne Lacy’s Foreword and section introduction authors Anne Balsamo, Harrell Fletcher, Natalie Loveless, Karen Moss, and Stephanie Rothenberg present twenty-five in-depth case studies by established and emerging contemporary artists including Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Artists offer firsthand insight into how they activate methods used in socially engaged art projects from the twentieth century and incorporated new technologies to create twenty-first century, socially engaged, digital art practices. Works highlighted in this book span collaborative image-making, immersive experiences, telematic art, time machines, artificial intelligence, and physical computing. These reflective case studies reveal how the artists collaborate with participants and communities, and have found ways to expand, transform, reimagine, and create new platforms for meaningful exchange in both physical and virtual spaces. An invaluable resource for students and scholars of art, technology, and new media, as well as artists interested in exploring these intersections.

Art as a Social System

Art as a Social System
Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804739078

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This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It combines three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory.