The artistic spirit of cities: How cities influence artists' agency
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This paper examines the reciprocal relationship between artists and cities by analyzing how cities influence artists' critical engagement. We hypothesize that a set of specific urban conditions suggests distinct forms of artistic engagement, which we call the artistic spirit of the city. Based on qualitative fieldwork in four cities in Germany and Israel, we explore how cities influence the self-perception, motivation, and practice of the artists who work and live in them. We found that artists are indeed highly influenced by the particular spirit or the intrinsic logic of the city in which they live and work, and they are embedded within the city's particular socio-political and spatial structures, which in turn influence their outlooks and visions as artistic city-zens.
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Aufsatznummer | 103843 |
| Zeitschrift | Cities |
| Jahrgang | 130 |
| ISSN | 0264-2751 |
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| Publikationsstatus | Erschienen - 01.11.2022 |
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Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture, in coordination with the Volkswagen Foundation (Niedersächsisches Vorab: Lower Saxonian - Israeli Research Cooperation, grant code VWZN3166). Part of the research was financed with the help of the Max Kampelman Chair for Democracy and Human Rights at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Professorship for the Sociology of the Arts at Leuphana University of Lueneburg.
Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture , in coordination with the Volkswagen Foundation (Niedersächsisches Vorab: Lower Saxonian - Israeli Research Cooperation, grant code VWZN3166 ). Part of the research was financed with the help of the Max Kampelman Chair for Democracy and Human Rights at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and the Professorship for the Sociology of the Arts at Leuphana University of Lueneburg .
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