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Arts: Art and Urban Studies

A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 9454

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Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Rodriguez Cunill

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1. Department of Painting, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
2. Research Scholar at Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture and Women's Studies & Gender Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Interests: architecture; art; art practice; urban studies; film; communication; Asian studies; women studies; social sciences
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Prof. Dr. Jose Cabeza-Lainez

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Department of Architectural Composition, Universidad de Sevilla, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: environmental design; daylighting simulation; solar radiation; indoor and outdoor thermal comfort; building energy efficiency
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Dr. Guido Cimadomo

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1. Department of Architecture, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2. Researcher in International Cooperation, Borders and Urban Contexts, Visiting Professor in Italy and Australia
Interests: architecture; urban studies; cultural heritage; protection of cultural heritage
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The crucible of large-scale natural disasters, wars, pandemics, and so forth has sky-rocketed the already dynamic metamorphosis of cities, both in their spatial structures and in the social processes that sustain them. For its part, the active insertion of art in the city has generated a continuous exploration of public art, collective social expressions, light experimentations, spatial speculations, the interactivity of urban devices, the recovery of the heritage of antique buildings, and urban cradles.

These questions have been manifest in the city and in artistic discourses about urban spaces, including the traditional fine arts (landscape painting as recognition of the awareness of urban space, or the artistic dimension of cartography), audio–visual arts, and new interactive formats.

For this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that, even starting from the depiction of specific phenomena of a location or a group of enclaves, provide results that lead us to a greater understanding of the complex changes that are taking place in cities. Likewise, we encourage the submission of articles that deal with direct artistic experiences in the urban realm or reflections on the representation of the city in artistic, visible, and intangible formats. Spatial science contributions may showcase this portrait of cities as a fluid and flexible network, based on many variables, and that organizes itself over time, progressing towards geometric mechanics. Theretofore, both empirical contributions and those that represent a theoretical advance in straddling art and urban studies will be considered.

We believe that these matters must be approached from a scientific point of view, since it is science that gives form to the formless, and that is why it has often been compared to art or even magick. We will explore these procedures of the generation of form in the amorphous context of urban culture and spatial arrangements.

This special issue is a joint Special issue with /Architecture/. You can view our page on /Architecture/ journal via the link below:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/architecture/special_issues/architecture_art_urban_studies.

Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Rodriguez Cunill
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Cabeza-Lainez
Dr. Guido Cimadomo
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Arts is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • visual and performing arts
  • city
  • urban studies
  • imagined landscapes
  • digital and scientific art
  • film and city
  • urban semiotics

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‘No State, No Masters’: Café Lavandería in Tokyo, Music, and Anticapitalism in a Cultural Environment
by María José González Dávila and Federico Fco. Pérez Garrido
Arts 2024, 13(4), 134; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040134 - 12 Aug 2024
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This paper is part of a series of research that these authors are conducting to study the linguistic landscape of the Tokyo megacity. In this instance, our focus lies on Shinjuku city. However, our examination does not extend to the linguistic landscape of [...] Read more.
This paper is part of a series of research that these authors are conducting to study the linguistic landscape of the Tokyo megacity. In this instance, our focus lies on Shinjuku city. However, our examination does not extend to the linguistic landscape of the city itself; rather, it zeroes in on a café situated at its core, the Café Lavandería. How did Café Lavandería contribute to the development of the Hispanic linguistic, sociolinguistic, and subversive landscape in central Tokyo? The research unfolds in various segments. Initially, contextualization introduces the reader to Tokyo and Shinjuku; subsequently, the significance of Café Lavandería and the subversive social and political movements in Japan are elucidated. Following this, the study’s foundation, including the photographic evidence and corresponding data, is presented. Lastly, an analysis of these data is conducted, culminating in an evaluation of Café Lavandería’s impact in Japan. Full article
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Postcards and Emotions: Modernist Architecture in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar and Woody Allen
by Rubén Romero Santos, Ana Mejón, Begoña Herrero Bernal and Carmen Ciller
Arts 2024, 13(4), 119; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13040119 - 14 Jul 2024
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Modernism has emerged as the preeminent iconic representation of Barcelona. However, the process through which this peculiar style has attained its iconic status is an arduous and multifaceted endeavor. This paper examines the challenges inherent in the categorization and periodization of Modernisme, followed [...] Read more.
Modernism has emerged as the preeminent iconic representation of Barcelona. However, the process through which this peculiar style has attained its iconic status is an arduous and multifaceted endeavor. This paper examines the challenges inherent in the categorization and periodization of Modernisme, followed by a succinct review of its initial filmic representations, culminating in a comprehensive analysis of two films in which Modernisme assumes a pivotal role: All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar 1999) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen 2008). We conclude that Modernisme’s transformation into a cultural brand is largely attributable to the erosion of its ideological component in favor of a touristic and globalizing gaze. Full article
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Global Cities in Transition: New York and Madrid in the Films of Chus Gutiérrez
by Sagrario Beceiro, Begoña Herrero, Ana Mejón and Rubén Romero Santos
Arts 2023, 12(6), 244; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12060244 - 27 Nov 2023
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In her triple condition of emigrant, artist and woman, the work of Spanish filmmaker Chus Gutiérrez is a privileged and singular object of study. Through her filmography it is possible to approach the changes that have taken place in the cities on both [...] Read more.
In her triple condition of emigrant, artist and woman, the work of Spanish filmmaker Chus Gutiérrez is a privileged and singular object of study. Through her filmography it is possible to approach the changes that have taken place in the cities on both sides of the Atlantic. Chus Gutiérrez resided in New York during the decade of the 1980s and returned to Madrid to witness the changes that this city was undergoing: from being the epicenter of a dictatorship to a democratic city. Her vision of both places is clearly reflected in two of her films: Sublet (1992) and El Calentito (2005). The protagonists profiled by Chus Gutiérrez in these films are young women who move through complex metropolitan spaces at a critical moment of their lives. Cities become another character, illustrating, pushing, or limiting their course; spaces in which the protagonists accept their differences and begin the search for their individual and collective identity. Full article
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Art and the City Fiction in Japanese American Internment Camps: Sequels for Resiliency
by Inmaculada Rodriguez-Cunill, Joseph Cabeza-Lainez and Maria del Mar Lopez-Cabrales
Arts 2023, 12(5), 195; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050195 - 11 Sep 2023
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This article delves into the creation a fictional city solely for the development of Japanese American internment camps and the way in which sustainable arts and crafts played a significant role in ensuring survival in such a hostile environment. To this aim, we [...] Read more.
This article delves into the creation a fictional city solely for the development of Japanese American internment camps and the way in which sustainable arts and crafts played a significant role in ensuring survival in such a hostile environment. To this aim, we searched the literature and reviewed archives, primarily from the American West Coast. We demonstrate that beyond adaptation to the circumstances, the visual representation of the new city’s settlement, founding, and daily activities, instead of adding to the typical panoptic or sombre prison imagery, remains inscribed in the images selected by the inmates, and that the use of such images precisely fostered the inmates’ resiliency. This leads us to deduce that such ’city fiction’ was necessary in this case for survival and endurance, and that its artistic representation was primarily incorporated into the State’s ideological apparatus. On the other hand, occasional fissures subtly seethed with the violence exerted in the camps. In this way, we conclude that the artistic activity itself justified the city fiction, among other situations, revealing the conditions of systemic violence and oppression faced by the internees. Within this framework, we deem that the artworks hereby generated constitute a paramount historical document for resiliency’s sake. The arguments contained herein are still relevant, because everywhere around the world, situations of exclusion and confinement of displaced immigrants, or simply those considered misfits, are repeated time and time again. Nor have we alleviated the issue in any way today, since we disregard the lessons learned from the past. Full article
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Street Guide as a Literary Genre: La Manada City
by María del Mar López-Cabrales, Joseph Cabeza-Lainez and Inmaculada Rodriguez-Cunill
Arts 2023, 12(3), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12030115 - 31 May 2023
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This study thoroughly examines La Manada (The Wolf Pack) City, an artwork that illuminates the various forms of violence and oppression experienced by urban communities, particularly women and marginalized groups. Our research specifically focuses on the literary elements of this painted map [...] Read more.
This study thoroughly examines La Manada (The Wolf Pack) City, an artwork that illuminates the various forms of violence and oppression experienced by urban communities, particularly women and marginalized groups. Our research specifically focuses on the literary elements of this painted map which demonstrates the transition from defensive to artistic strategies as a means of survival. Initially, we aim to provide a comprehensive background of the artwork, including its title, social context, the incidents that inspired the idea, and the author’s activism. Subsequently, we scrutinize the literary resources of the 257 items that comprise the street guide of the map. By analysing the various names given to locations on the map, including literary devices and semantic fields, we observe reminiscences of classic surrealist paintings and the artist’s ability to protect herself while revealing the violence hidden behind the guise of antithesis, alliteration, metaphor, and other literary devices. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our research, we compared it to two other maps with different intentions. Our findings confirm the strength of La Manada City, which operates both locally and globally. As a representation of the former emporium city of Seville, our map exposes the adverse impact of dominant capitalistic strategies on community life, perpetuating inequalities for countless “poor owners of the world” by disregarding nature and culture. Full article
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