Artistic Utopias of Revolt | Buch

Cover: 9783319714219 | Artistic Utopias of Revolt | Julia Ramírez Blanco | Buch | XVI | 2018

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Beschreibung

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have provided a language to express the collective desire for social change.

The study begins with the 1993 occupation of Claremont Road in east London, an attempt to prevent the demolition of homes to make room for a new motorway. In a squatted row of houses, all available space was transformed and filled with elements that were both aesthetic and defensive ¿ so when the authorities arrived to evict the protestors, sculptures were turned into barricades. At the end of the decade, this kind of performative celebration merged with the practices of the antiglobalisation movement, where activists staged spectacular parallel events alongside the global elite¿s international meetings. As this book shows, social movements try to erase the distance that separates reality and political desire, turning ordinary people into creators of utopias. Squatted houses, carnivalesque street parties, counter-summits, and camps in central squares, all create a physical place of these utopian visions

Über den Autor

Julia Ramírez-Blanco is Lecturer at Barcelona University, Spain. Her work revolves around the relationships between art, utopia and activism. Researching in various institutions in Europe and the USA, her publications have appeared in English, French, Italian and Spanish in various co-authored books and journals.

Zusammenfassung

Examines expressions of utopian ideals by social activists in Western Europe since the late twentieth century

Analyses the aesthetic components of utopian space through a series of case studies

Argues that the fall of the Berlin wall has significantly impacted the political and cultural imagination of Western Europe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Art as Language, Utopia as Discourse.- 2. Activism as a Place: The British Anti-Roads Movement and the Squatted Street of Claremont Road.- 3. The Reclaim the Streets Protest Parties in London.- 4. Interlude: The Globalization of the Aesthetics of Protest.- 5. Disobedience as an Urban Form: The Acampadasol in Madrid.- 6. Notes Towards a Conclusion.-Chronology of Events.- Glossary.- Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Inhalt:	xvi 187 S. 6 s/w Illustr. 43 farbige Illustr. 187 p. 49 illus. 43 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319714219
ISBN-10:	331971421X
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-71421-9
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ramírez Blanco, Julia
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Maße:	216 x 153 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Julia Ramírez Blanco
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.03.2018
Gewicht:	0,383 kg

Artikel-ID: 111022840