Liquid Sculpture: The Public Art of Cristina Iglesias
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2407
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz
- ISBN
- 9783775748230
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2021
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24774/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Art
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Liquid Sculpture: The Public Art of Cristina Iglesias arose from a set of research questions related to the role of public art in the contemporary moment. Iglesias’ public sculpture poses many of these questions. What is the role of public art in urban regeneration? Does public art have the capacity to celebrate and reconcile diverse communities, or to question the dominant discourses about a given social identity? Can public art occur outside the public realm and yet still have significance for it?_x000D_
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The research for the book developed through an interdisciplinary and discursive methodology. As the editor responsible for textual content, Noble invited historians, philosophers, marine biologists, curators, public art commissioners and art writers to present papers and discuss three major public sculptures by Iglesias in three separate symposia: Forgotten Streams (2017), London; Tres Aguas (2014), Toledo; Estancias Sumergidas (2010), La Jolla, CA. These papers were then re-written for publication under Noble’s editorship (Noble contributed an essay). Noble then edited the discussions to capture the rich interdisciplinary engagement around each of these sculptures. _x000D_
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The book tracks the rhizomic influence of a major contemporary artist on contemporary cultural and intellectual life. Divided into three section, the book develops important research insights into the questions posed above. Art/City highlights the importance of public art in providing opportunities for non-instrumental forms of social engagement in highly commercialised urban spaces. Art/Culture demonstrates ways public art can draw upon diverse cultural histories to deepen and complicate our experience of social space, enabling the construction of counter-hegemonic cultural narratives. Art/Wild explores the possibility of a post-human aesthetic in which the distinctions between animal and human experience, nature and culture, wild and non-wild begin to break down, opening up new possibilities for thinking about our impending ecological catastrophe.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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