Artistic Utopias of Revolt - Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol - Bok av Julia Ramírez Blanco - Häftad

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have provided a language to express the collective desire for social change.The study begins with the 1993 occupation of Claremont Road in east London, an attempt to prevent the demolition of homes to make room..