Martina Tanga, Arte Ambientale, Urban Space, and Participatory Art

Abstract

Martina Tanga’s Arte Ambientale, Urban Space, and Participatory Art is a thorough and carefully researched account of Arte Ambientale (Environmental Art), the term given to describe the interventions into cityscapes made by certain Italian artists in the 1970s through a diverse set of practices which included sculptural, conceptual and participatory works, all of which sought to address the social relations at play in often peripheral and marginalized urban locations. Hitherto neglected in It...