Contemporary street arts in Europe [electronic resource] : aesthetics and politics / by Susan C. Haedicke.
Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. The artists seek to interrupt daily life, startle onlookers with an inversion of a familiar place and quotidian activities, and test the limits of wha...
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Studies in international performance.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Into the Street
- Introduction: Aesthetics and Politics of Street Arts Interventions
- Looking Back: A Socio-Historical and Intellectual Context for Contemporary Street Arts in Europe
- Democratic Performatives and an Aesthetics of Public Space
- Performing Democracy on a Grand Scale
- Trespassing in Urban Places
- Subversive Imaginaries: Performing the Other
- Community Performance: Community Performatives
- Postscript: Beyond the Street
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Introduction: aesthetics and politics of street arts interventions
- Looking back: a socio-historical and intellectual context for contemporary street arts in Europe
- Democratic performatives and an aesthetics of public space
- Performing democracy on a grand scale
- Trespassing in urban places
- Subversive imaginaries: performing the other
- Community performance: community performatives
- Postscript: beyond the street.