Art and the Community
Art in Diverse Social Settings
ISBN: 978-1-80043-897-2, eISBN: 978-1-80043-896-5
Publication date: 2 March 2021
Abstract
This chapter analyzes a specific form of contemporary art, the one that is created and exhibited in the community, conceived and visualized outside of the art market and independent of the agenda of creative industries and art galleries. The motivation, purpose and meaning of such art practices, for both the artists and the community, are discussed and examples of community art projects are analyzed in order to understand how art became, in this first quarter of the twenty-first century, such a valued collective asset, so accessible and present in the daily life of the common man. Two Portuguese case studies have been chosen as illustrations: the first one is a funding programme of projects focussed on artistic practices for inclusion (the PARTIS programme, by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and the second is a self-financed and self-curated artistic collective, Pescada nº 5.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank the artists who gave permission to reproduce photographs of their work. This work was supported by CICEA (Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe Association).
Citation
Gonçalves, S. (2021), "Art and the Community", Gonçalves, S. and Majhanovich, S. (Ed.) Art in Diverse Social Settings, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 157-184. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-896-520211010
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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