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Visual culture of post-industrial Europe

Guerin, Frances and Szczesniak, Magda, eds. (2024) Visual culture of post-industrial Europe. Cities and Cultures . Amsterdam University Pres, Amsterdam, 408 pp. ISBN 978-90-485-6009-7. (KAR id:106190)

Abstract

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 Hamburg, a Moscow paper factory and textile factories in Albania, to still-functioning Croatian metalworks.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: N Visual Arts > N Visual arts (General). For photography, see TR
N Visual Arts > NB Sculpture
N Visual Arts > NC Drawing. Design. Illustration
N Visual Arts > ND Painting
N Visual Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Frances Guerin
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2024 13:51 UTC
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2024 08:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106190 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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