Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics

by Rosalyn Deutsche

Book Overview

Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates--and protests against--the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse. Deutsche argues that critics on both the left and the right invoke harmonious images of space that conceal and justify exclusions--whether the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262540975
• ISBN13: 9780262540971
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher