Visual Culture of Post-industrial Europe, Hardcover by Guerin, Frances (EDT);...

by Guerin, Frances (EDT); Szczesniak, Magda (EDT)

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Visual Culture of Post-industrial Europe, Hardcover by Guerin, Frances (EDT); Szczesniak, Magda (EDT), ISBN 9048560098, ISBN-13 9789048560097, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 1. Focus on regeneration of post-industrial landscapes through art, film and visual culture 2. Geographical reach across European borders, encompassing post-industrial art and visual culture in 17 different European countries. 3. Highlights the themes, issues and concerns of post-industrial transition as they are represented by and embodied within visual objects. Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities. Typically, art and visual cultural creations at one-time thriving European heartlands strive to make the industrial past visible, negotiable, and re-imaginable. Authors discuss varied and multiple types of art and visual culture that remember the sometimes-invisible past, create community in the face of social disintegration, and navigate the dissonance between past and present material reality. They also examine art and visual objects at post-industrial European sites for their aesthetic, historical, and sociological role within official and unofficial, government and community regeneration and re-vitalisation efforts. Sites range from former coal and steel plants in Duisburg, through shipyards and harbours of Gdansk and

• ISBN: 9789048560097
• Condition: Fine

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