Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City
This paper addresses the relations between art and everyday life in the city from the vantage points of urban aesthetics and sociology, where the “city” refers as well to a normative world. The aim is to show how art/artistic life contributed to the normative change and new urban lifestyles. First,...
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| description | This paper addresses the relations between art and everyday life in the city from the vantage points of urban aesthetics and sociology, where the “city” refers as well to a normative world. The aim is to show how art/artistic life contributed to the normative change and new urban lifestyles. First, I focus on Baudelaire’s theory of beauty and life in modern metropolis or the city as “poetic object” and dandyism as an art of the self, seen as a crucial normative change: the emergence of new norms of excellence and art of living, such as creativity and self-fashioning. Second, I discuss a recent yet related normative change, described by Boltanski and Chiapello as a passage to the “project-oriented city”, seen as a new way of working and living that fuses cultures of creativity and uncertainty. Third, I tackle the “creative city” hailed by Florida, where the creative lifestyle of “creative people” is the new mainstream setting the norms for society: individuality, diversity and openness, but also impermanent relationships and loose ties. I will argue that extending the hyper-mobile and flexible creative lifestyle from the extraordinary figure of the artist to ordinary people, as everyday urban life, triggers both benefits and risks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7846054475f349f2a3cfde8dd8828f182022-12-21T18:46:52ZcesUniversity of Presov, Faculty of ArtsESPES1339-11192021-12-01102183204203Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative CityDan Eugen Ratiu0Babes-Bolyai UniversityThis paper addresses the relations between art and everyday life in the city from the vantage points of urban aesthetics and sociology, where the “city” refers as well to a normative world. The aim is to show how art/artistic life contributed to the normative change and new urban lifestyles. First, I focus on Baudelaire’s theory of beauty and life in modern metropolis or the city as “poetic object” and dandyism as an art of the self, seen as a crucial normative change: the emergence of new norms of excellence and art of living, such as creativity and self-fashioning. Second, I discuss a recent yet related normative change, described by Boltanski and Chiapello as a passage to the “project-oriented city”, seen as a new way of working and living that fuses cultures of creativity and uncertainty. Third, I tackle the “creative city” hailed by Florida, where the creative lifestyle of “creative people” is the new mainstream setting the norms for society: individuality, diversity and openness, but also impermanent relationships and loose ties. I will argue that extending the hyper-mobile and flexible creative lifestyle from the extraordinary figure of the artist to ordinary people, as everyday urban life, triggers both benefits and risks.https://espes.ff.unipo.sk/index.php/ESPES/article/view/220art of the selfbaudelairecreative lifestylecreative citymetropoliseveryday life |
| spellingShingle | Dan Eugen Ratiu Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City ESPES art of the self baudelaire creative lifestyle creative city metropolis everyday life |
| title | Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City |
| title_full | Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City |
| title_short | Art and Everyday Life in the City. From Modern Metropolis to Creative City |
| title_sort | art and everyday life in the city from modern metropolis to creative city |
| topic | art of the self baudelaire creative lifestyle creative city metropolis everyday life |
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