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Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Author :  Sharon Irish

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Country
United Kingdom
Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 9781350197626
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 304 p,156 x 234mm
Categories Art & Visual Culture
Product Weight 671 gms.
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This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about "audience" and "art." Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

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