Tourists like us. Critical Tourism and Contemporary Art
By Edited by Federica Martini & Vytautas Michelkevicius.
Description
This book opens up a new field of discussion at the crossroads between contemporary art and critical tourism. As common ground for theoretical inquiry and artistic research, the notion of critical tourism asks us to question again our understanding of authenticity, the tourist gaze, the museification of landscape, the visual construction of place, post-romanticism, contemporary exoticism, site-specificity and global connectedness. The book specifically explores the role of the artist, and of the art institution, in the age of destination culture. How are individual and institutional practic...
ISBN(s)
6094471075, 9786094471070
