The artistic spirit of cities: How cities influence artists' agency
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The artistic spirit of cities : How cities influence artists' agency. / Kaddar, Merav; Barak, Nir; Hoop, Marie et al.
In: Cities, Vol. 130, 103843, 01.11.2022.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The artistic spirit of cities
T2 - How cities influence artists' agency
AU - Kaddar, Merav
AU - Barak, Nir
AU - Hoop, Marie
AU - Kirchberg, Volker
AU - de Shalit, Avner
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Artists
KW - Artivism
KW - Urban citizenship urban politics
KW - Urban interventions
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133607236&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103843
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103843
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85133607236
VL - 130
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
SN - 0264-2751
M1 - 103843
ER -