{"product_id":"community-art-kate-crehan-9781847888334","title":"Community Art: An Anthropological Perspective","description":"Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective.The book focuses on the forty year history of Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played a major part in the 1970s struggle to carve out a space for community arts in Britain. Turning their back on the world of gallery art, the fine-artist founders of Free Form were determined to use their visual expertise to connect, through collaborative art projects, with the working-class people excluded by the established art world. In seeking to give the residents of poor communities a greater role in shaping their built environment, the artists' aesthetic practice would be transformed.Community Art examines this process of aesthetic transformation and its rejection of the individualized practice of the gallery artist. The Free Form story calls into question common understandings of the categories of \"art,\" \"expertise,\" and \"community,\" and makes this story relevant beyond late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Crehan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184788833X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847888334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Kate Crehan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930893926655,"sku":"9781847888334","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1078172-5403-4a23-ad0a-fafd5ba2f5cd.jpg?v=1766345010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/community-art-kate-crehan-9781847888334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}