Artists imagining the city: Activist art about housing issues in Chicago at the start of the twenty-first century

Daniel Tucker

doi:10.1386/aps.4.1-2.69_1

ISSN: 2042-793X
E-ISSN: 2042-7948

Artists imagining the city: Activist art about housing issues in Chicago at the start of the twenty-first century
By Daniel Tucker¹
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¹ Moore College of Art and Design
Source: Art & the Public Sphere, Volume 4, Issue 1-2, Dec 2015, p. 69 - 82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/aps.4.1-2.69_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Dec 2015

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This text provides an overview of artists working in Chicago between 2000–2015 who responded to a lack of affordable housing or democratic control of public space.

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Keyword(s): agit-prop; creative placemaking; housing; neoliberalism; public housing; public space

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