Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City by Leah Modigliani - 9781032195148

Counter Revanchist Art in the Global CityWalls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action\nAuthor(s): Leah Modigliani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032195148, 978-1032195148\nSynopsis\nThrough analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. \n\nThis book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of counter-revanchism in the context of the rise of the global city. How do artists channel the global spatial conflicts of the 21st century through their behaviours, actions, and constructions in and on the actually existing conditions of the street? What does it mean for artiststhe very symbol of freedom of personal expressionto shut down space? To refuse entry? To block others passage? The late critical geographer Ne.