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[...]... Taking the second architecture, Chapters 1, 5 and 9 all concern the public realm and its furnishing with signs of social ordering and disordering Between Chapters 1 and 5 the fields of art, architecture and theory are examined Between Chapters 5 and 9 a number of contemporary practices are investigated, many of which enact the collapse of conventional boundaries between practices and fields Chapter 5... known than they should be XII GENERAL INTRODUCTION SCOPE This is an academic book for second- and third-year undergraduates in art, architecture, cultural geography, cultural planning, cultural studies, urban sociology and urban studies; and for post-graduates in trans-disciplinary fields of culture, society and environment If the book offers something to readers in critical theory I should be delighted,... formulated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the second is to comment on recent and contemporary practices These are difficult to categorise but exist between art, architecture and the processes of urban formation The third is then to introduce readers to the literatures of fields within that triangulation other than their own I have attempted to integrate various insights and perspectives rather... hope the book will contribute to debates on urban issues during the first decade of the twenty-first century In particular, I hope it will illuminate what certain kinds of cultural practices contribute, not only reflectively, but in actively shaping the agendas of future urban development and change The agendas are shaped already by contexts such as climate change and globalisation, yet it seems important... 1993 at the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C and reconsiders the construction of historical narratives Chapter 7 begins a few days later with a performance at an art centre in New York, and addresses participation and provocation in recent art and architecture Chapter 8 looks to issues of sustainability and how cultural interventions address the green agenda, beginning with... swiftest and most expeditious When we wish to spread new ideas amongst men [sic], we use, in turn, the lyre, the ode or song, story or novel; we inscribe those ideas on marble or 1 11 11 1871: SPITTING ON BONAPARTE 9 canvas, and we popularize them in poetry and in song We also make use of the stage, and it is there above all that our influence is most electric and triumphant We aim for the heart and imagination,... the centre of a large room, painting a landscape Behind him stands a model in semi-undress, while in front of him are a boy and a cat (I do not understand 12 1871: SPITTING ON BONAPARTE the cat’s role) On the left, as the spectator sees it (the right for Courbet), are artisans, peasants, a gamekeeper and the poor; on the right (or left), are Courbet’s patrons and members of the intellectual class, including... extension of concepts), not in dexterity; and that a form of universal communication is possible: ‘Then the fine arts and letters would cease to be a distraction of the erudite and refined to become a common currency for the transmission and exchange of feelings, an everyday language within reach of everyone’ (Thoré, [1857] 1868, VIII, quoted in Harrison and Wood, 1998: 386) This reads like a Realist... everyone has the keys and can set it free’ (ibid.);43 and concludes ‘The transmutation of art cannot therefore take place unless the universal mind 14 1871: SPITTING ON BONAPARTE changes too Is it changing? Will it change? ’ (Thoré, [1857] 1868, IX, quoted in Harrison and Wood, 1998: 387) Thoré, in his exile in Brussels, looks forward to a world in which art communicates universally and the advance of... You must remember that at this time nothing was available and we had to resort to such measures as highjacking horses and cabs and driving round the city confiscating whatever we could’ (Tolstoy, Bibikova and Cooke, 1990: 70) 17 Sadler cites the Lettrist International: ‘Monuments whose ugliness is irretrievable in any part (the Petit and Grand Palais genre) will have to make way for other constructions’ . Plymouth, author of Art, Space and the City and co-editor of The City Cultures Reader. 1 1 11 11 URBAN AVANT-GARDES ART, ARCHITECTURE AND CHANGE ● Malcolm. Malcolm. Urban Avant-Gardes: art, architecture and change / Malcolm Miles. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Art and society. 2. Architecture