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Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics (communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city" by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities (from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these case studies focus the reader's attention to the evolution of art in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions and conglomerations in the urban landscape.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
James T. Andrews (Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1994) is Distinguished University Professor of Modern Russian History at Iowa State University. He is the editor or author of five books, including an acclaimed two-volume cultural history of the Soviet space program titled Red Cosmos (2009) and Into the Cosmos (2011) respectively. His fellowships and awards include the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Margaret R. LaWare (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1993) is Associate Professor of English and Speech Communication at Iowa State University where she has been Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. The author of numerous articles in major journals such as College English and Women¿s Studies in Communication, she is currently completing a book titled Speaking to Americäs Women: Commencement Speeches, Women¿s Colleges, and Feminist Movements.
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"Art and the Global City: Public Space, Transformative Media, and the Politics of Urban Rhetoric makes original and significant contributions to how we think about public art as a form of media and communication. The authors extend the idea of 'communicative cities,' showing how public art originates, gets commissioned (through municipal and political processes of recruiting artists, determining sites, negotiating fees, etc.), produced, and responded to by urban audiences, and how it transforms physical and social environments. The authors, scholars from different academic disciplines, explore a wide and fascinating range of urban art projects-everything from 'light art' to 'ghost signs' to neighborhood murals. I highly recommend this new book for anyone interested in how public artists help urban residents mediate and negotiate modern citiscapes." -Kenneth Zagacki, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University
