Urban Encounters: Art and the Public. Book review of: Martha Radice, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (ed.) Urban encounters: Art and the public.

Abstract

The result of a 2013 conference held in Halifax, this collective book brings together scholars, artists and many more to see how “the interactions between art and the public actually play out in the urban social context” (p.3). Crossing boundaries between artistic creations and social science research, focused mainly on Canadian cities, this provocative project will appeal to anyone, both inside and outside of academia, seeking new ways to study the relationships between artists, publics and ...