Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature write by Fram Kitagawa. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Art Place Japan: The Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and the Vision to Reconnect Art and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every three years, three hundred square miles of land in northwestern Japan are transformed into the most ambitious and largest-scale art installation in the world: the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field. One hundred sixty of the world's best-known landscape artists, sculptors, and architects create artworks in two hundred villages that dot the mountains and terraced rice fields of the Japanese countryside, with the intent of rediscovering relationships between nature, art, and humanity, forging collaborations between global artists and local communities, and connecting people to each other and the land. Half a million people make the annual pilgrimage to witness this unique art project. Art Place Japan offers an exhaustive full-color catalog of the eight hundred artworks created during the past fifteen years. For those lucky enough to visit, this book, the first in English on the subject, also offers detailed information on how to visit the often-remote sites, with travel information and a newly commissioned map that locates the projects throughout the Niigata Prefecture.
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan write by Stephanie Assmann. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and acknowledges that an era of post-growth has arrived in Japan. Through exploring new forms of regional employment, community empowerment, and reverse migration, the authors address potential opportunities and benefits that may help to create and ensure the quality of life in depopulating areas and post-disaster scenarios. This book will be of interest not only to students of Japanese society, but also to those outside of Japan who are seeking new approaches for tackling depopulation challenges.
The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm
The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm write by Cameron Cartiere. This book was released on 2020-10-19. The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art. It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices, while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices, as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, urban studies, and museum studies.
Cultures of Participation
Cultures of Participation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultures of Participation write by Birgit Eriksson. This book was released on 2019-09-05. Cultures of Participation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions. Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different "cultures of participation", an interdisciplinary team of authors demonstrate how the areas of arts, digital media, and cultural policy and institutions are shaped by different but interrelated contextual backgrounds. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives and strategies for empirically identifying "cultures of participation" and their current transformations and tensions in various regional and national settings. This book will be of interest to academics and cultural leaders in the areas of museum studies, media and communications, arts, arts education, cultural studies, curatorial studies and digital studies. It will also be relevant for cultural workers, artists and policy makers interested in the participatory agenda in art, digital media and cultural institutions.
Cultures of the Countryside
Cultures of the Countryside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultures of the Countryside write by Veronica Sekules. This book was released on 2017-11-27. Cultures of the Countryside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultures of the Countryside examines the relationship between the museum and the micro-cultures of the countryside. Offering an exploration of museums and heritage projects in the UK that have attempted to introduce new ways of engagement between localities, objects, and people, this book considers how museums, heritage initiatives, and art projects have dealt with pressing local and global socio-political issues relating to the environment and rural life, including changing demographics and rural practices, local environmental concerns, and global climate activism. Providing a thorough examination of the representation of competing histories, visions and politics, Sekules asks whether museums and heritage projects can engage actively in shaping cultures, as well as reflecting them. At the core of the analysis is an examination of the findings from a project in the UK’s East Anglia, ‘The Culture of the Countryside’, from which emerged themes closely bound to different countryside landscapes, peoples and heritage. Aimed at practitioners and students alike, Cultures of the Countryside provides a unique insight into the roles of the museum and heritage projects in rural and environmental issues in the recent past, whilst also offering perspectives and recommendations for the future.
