Insights into applied visual arts in community-based and socially engaged art, including in education.
Publication of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Finland. Edited by Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Maria Huhmarniemi & Elina Härkönen.
This book presents a series of essays and reports on the topic of Applied Visual Arts. Broadly speaking, this territory of contemporary arts focuses on community-based and socially engaged art. Authors include academics, artists, curators and postgraduate students who share a commitment to advancing the cause of context sensitive art, research and education. The anthology will be of interest to a wide audience including, for example, artists, social scientists, community activists and educators. Organised in five sections (see below) the book offers readers a wide range of perspectives into Applied Visual Arts, cool indeed.
SECTIONS Contexts Tradition To Contemporary Applied Visual Arts In Public Places Community Engagement Applied Visual Arts In Education (Jokela et al. (Eds.), 2013, p. 174)
Publication: Cool: Applied Visual Arts in the North
by Radka Jágriková
Sep 30, 2015
Insights into applied visual arts in community-based and socially engaged art, including in education.
Publication of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Finland. Edited by Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Maria Huhmarniemi & Elina Härkönen.
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