#citiesasart

[mgobomb]

''public art is a part of our public history, part of our evolving culture and our collective memory. it reflects and reveals our society and adds meaning to our cities. as artists respond to our times, they reflect their inner vision to the outside world, and they create a chronicle of our public experience.'' 

thank you, Canada, for saving my life - ye. also on their website: cultural mapping & cultural planning toolkit. 

street artists i appreciate yew forever <3

[mgobomb]

Anchors Aweigh!

The emphasis on beauty and the traditionalist view of art is a rejection of the way in which modernist art is divorced from what Richard Shusterman (1995) calls “the practice of living”. Art should not be confined to wall space in a museum, Shusterman argues, and doing so is “a pathetic failure of theoretical as well as artistic imagination” (p. 265). Part of the traditionalist counter-proposal, then, is about developing an art that is more engaged with the needs of the world, one that is less about autonomy and the supposed ‘freedom’ of isolation and individuality. This kind of integration has implications for city planning. The main tenets of traditionalism in art, as a counter-proposal to modernism, include the need for a participatory, interactive kind of art, the need to avoid separation of art and life, and the need to integrate art and nature. It is precisely these emphases on integration that can be used to support the connection between aesthetics and city planning.