Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art : Experiments in Cybernetics and Society
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| Title: | Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art : Experiments in Cybernetics and Society |
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| Description: | Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant.For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation. |
| Authors: | Sharon Irish |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Social practice (Art)--England--London |
| Categories: | ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Digital |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant.For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation. |
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| ISBN: | 9781350197626 9781350203631 9781350197619 9781350197602 |
