{"product_id":"cityart-9780822344551","title":"CityArt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn interdisciplinary collection exploring how creative practices broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, and performance art, continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Professor Biron, and the international colleagues whose work she has collected in \u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e, admirably aid in the effort to move \u003ci\u003enortamericanos\u003c\/i\u003e' view of Latin America from the trivial to the substantial.” - Michael R. Mosher, \u003ci\u003eLeonardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a fascinating, if rather fragmented, book. This fragmentedness is intentional, and is due in part to the multidisciplinary, open-ended\u003cbr\u003eorientation of the collection. . . . [T]he book challenges us to approach and understand the complexity of ‘Latin American’ cities in new, productive, and\u003cbr\u003einspiring ways.” - Kristin Norget, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e includes ten provocative chapters spanning a variety of topics\u003cbr\u003ewithin the urban cultural studies field. From architecture and city planning\u003cbr\u003eto more ephemeral artistic manifestations embodied in graffiti, film,\u003cbr\u003efiction and everyday life, the distinguished scholars assembled here provide\u003cbr\u003ea thoughtful assessment of what is otherwise a vast, nearly incomprehensible,\u003cbr\u003ehyper-dynamic subject.” - Andrew Grant Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe Latin Americanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An insightful and suggestive collection of approaches to creative practices that produce and are produced by Latin American cities. \u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers a multidisciplinary collage of ways of studying and interrogating meaningful imaginaries of some of the most vibrant, amicable, violent, passionate, unequal, sensual, and intriguing cities in the contemporary world.”—\u003cb\u003eDaniel Mato\u003c\/b\u003e, Universidad Central de Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e“Urban planning in the world's most chaotic megacities? Flamboyant creativity in the planet's slums? The breathless pace of change in Latin America has left us both fascinated and confused. \u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e creates an exciting space for real interdisciplinary dialogue between culture studies and urban planning scholars on the new challenges to urban life in some of the world's largest cities, and helps us in the urgent task of rethinking the cultural with respect to the social and political spaces in which it is imbedded.”—\u003cb\u003eDebra A. Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRe-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e includes ten provocative chapters spanning a variety of topics within the urban cultural studies field. From architecture and city planning to more ephemeral artistic manifestations embodied in graffiti, film, fiction and everyday life, the distinguished scholars assembled here provide a thoughtful assessment of what is otherwise a vast, nearly incomprehensible, hyper-dynamic subject.” -- Andrew Grant Wood * The Latin Americanist *\u003cbr\u003e“Professor Biron, and the international colleagues whose work she has collected in \u003ci\u003eCity\/Art\u003c\/i\u003e, admirably aid in the effort to move \u003ci\u003enortamericanos\u003c\/i\u003e' view of Latin America from the trivial to the substantial.” -- Michael R. Mosher * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a fascinating, if rather fragmented, book. This fragmentedness is intentional, and is due in part to the multidisciplinary, open-ended orientation of the collection. . . . [T]he book challenges us to approach and understand the complexity of ‘Latin American’ cities in new, productive, and inspiring ways.” -- Kristin Norget * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: City\/Art: Setting the Scene \/ Rebecca E. Biron 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Urban Designs \u003cbr\u003e What is a City? \/ Néstor García Canclini 37\u003cbr\u003e Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too \/ Adrián Gorelik 61\u003cbr\u003e The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk \/ James Holston 85\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Street Signs \u003cbr\u003e City, Art, Politics \/ Nelly Richard 115\u003cbr\u003e The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of the Aesthetics \/ Marcy Schwartz 127\u003cbr\u003e Miami Remake \/ José Quiroga 145\u003cbr\u003e The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction \/ Amy Kaminsky 165\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Traffic \u003cbr\u003e On Maps and Malls \/ Hugo Achugar 185\u003cbr\u003e Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro \/ George Yúdice 211\u003cbr\u003e Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness \/ Nelson Brissac Peixoto 233\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 251\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 267\u003cbr\u003e Index 271","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406055186775,"sku":"9780822344551","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344551.jpg?v=1730494379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cityart-9780822344551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}