Cultural capitals revaluing the arts, remaking urban spaces

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-221
Author(s):  
Lorraine Lim
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Author(s):  
Hoe Su Fern

This chapter examines the role of the arts and artists in rejuvenating urban spaces in Singapore, where place management ideas are currently being used to rejuvenate parts of the city centre. Coexisting alongside state-driven initiatives are artist-led strategies where local art practitioners and organizations activate latent and/or under-utilized spaces. Through an analysis of policy documents and qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the interplay between top-down aspirations and formal place management efforts, and the organic ways artists have activated and engaged with spaces. Ultimately, I argue that there is a need to balance formal governance structures with more support for artists engaging in organic, ground-up initiatives.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Caitlin Frances Bruce

In this article, I briefly discuss a project I co-organized this year in collaboration with Oreen Cohen, Shane Pilster, Rivers of Steel, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, and the American Studies Association. Named “Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project” we used international collaboration between artists in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and León Guanajuato Mexico as a platform for conversation about how to reimagine our shared urban spaces. In a political moment that might be a cause for despair, collaborative art practice in urban space can serve as one vehicle to reignite our shared sense of possibility and energy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Birul Walidaini

Artikel ini mendeskripsikan tentang peran modal budaya dalam pemetaan kualitan pendidikan. Artikel ini didasari dari review buku “Cultural Capital Rvaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces” yang ditulis Louse C. Johnson. Dalam buku “Cultural Capital Rvaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces” yang ditulis Louse C. Johnson dapat dilihat bagaimana modal budaya berperan penting dalam membangun sebuah kota dan memberikan identitas didalamnya. Buku “Cultural Capital Rvaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces” yang ditulis Louse C. Johnson  memberikan contoh kota yang kembali dibangun dengan menerapkan konsep modal budaya. Hasil yang didapat dari buku “Cultural Capital Rvaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces” yang ditulis Louse C. Johnson adalah deskripsi tentang konsep modal budaya dari Bordieu dan deskripsi tentang pembangunan berkelanjutan di perkotaan. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan mendeskripsikan pengaruh modal sosial terhadap sistem pendidikan dan sistem sekolah. hasil artikel ini adalah modal budaya memberikan pengaruh terhadap peningkatan kualitas pendidikan, dan konsep- konsep modal budaya dapat diterapkan dalam menjalankan sistem pendidikan dan sistem sekolah.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Haitham Aamer Mahmoud Hussein

It is clear how the techonological developments along with globalization depleted the identity of civilizations and peoples, so it is necessary for the intellectuals and the artists to work hard in order to assure the identity of the cities. Such sacred goal could be achieved via increasing the people’s awareness.The identity of the cities will, directly, help in achieving the elevation and excellence of cities in order to maintain the uniqueness of their personalities and artwroks. In doing so, sublime values and morals, like the spirit of nationalism and patriotism of their people will be cultivated and harnessed. However, neglecting that may result in the dismantling of their identity accompanied by other sideaffects, like losing the cities’ historical, economic, political, social, religious or scientific identity.This study is analysing and comparing the models for a distinct identity of the industrial cities ranging from Egypt, Europe to America in the twentieth century until now. It also investigates if the contemporary arts have a role to assert a distinct identity of the industrial cities in this period of time or not.       Art is the language of the place and the revealer of its identity. Statues in squares are a pulpit. Urban spaces help cultivating such language emphasizing of the culture of its residents and the policy of the responsible administrations. Technical works in the industrial cities represents the identity of the city, which is totally different than other cities.  The identity of the industrial states is affected by several factors. Firstly, the cultural factors- where the establishments of culture and identity occur through arts, the awareness and understanding of the audience, and their tastes of the Arts. Secondly, the economic factors which cost and enrich the attraction of investors and manufacturers. Thirdly, the political factors assist the governments in seeking the elimination of the socisl problems concerning the political success. It is majorly perpetuauted by providing factories and living needs in these cities; leading to the negligience of the artsitic, social and moral factors. There should be a relationship between these borderlines and the used machinery to achieve compatibility between life circumstances and the beauty of the artwork.Drafting Fine artwork, and its impact on manufacturers' motivation and encouragement, by expression or symbolism or movement within the artwork, and the emphasis on the moral value of the work in gaining respect and dignity.Spatial limits :  Egypt, Europe, America, and limiting the study to on one city from each.Time limits: from the twentieth century until now.


Prospects ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 321-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Orvell

We have thought of whitman as an urban poet for so long-noticing how integral his Manhattan is to the imagery of Leaves of Grass – that we have lost sight of the deeper structure of urban popular culture lying behind the poem. As Remy G. Saisselin has recently argued, the city in the nineteenth century transformed the eye of the observer, and new kinds of urban spaces and entertainments—like the arcade, the panorama, and the department store—were created to satisfy a growing population of consumers. Saisselin affirms, moreover, that an unprecedented variety of aesthetic observer evolved along with these changes in urban experience: No longer was he “the man of taste in contemplation before a picture or a landscape. … He was the flaneur in the modern city.” And he associates this new observer with the photographer, whose urban gaze was also ubiquitous, surveying urban types and spaces. Saisselin is speaking here primarily of the European city, of Paris especially, but his observations are valuable in considering anew the sources of Whitman's art, for they point to a relationship between poetry and the urban milieu that has been generally overlooked. More specifically, they lead us to see the invention of Leaves of Grass as a way of organizing and perceiving reality that was new in the arts of the nineteenth century, yet one that was rooted in the popular urban culture of the time.


Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.


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