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The fine art of living / Ina Wudtke.
LIBRA N6888.W753 A4 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wudtke, Ina, 1968- artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Political activity.
- Artists.
- Art and social action.
- Art and society.
- Community development, Urban.
- Gentrification.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Wudtke, Ina, 1968---Exhibitions.
- Wudtke, Ina.
- Gentrification--Germany--Berlin--Exhibitions.
- Community development, Urban--Germany--Berlin.
- Art and society--Germany--Berlin.
- Art and social action--Germany--Berlin.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Exhibition title: Pirate Jenny
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Archive Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Gentrification is not a law of nature, it is a war against the poor. It is a carefully planned development in cities, where it is welcomed and supported by political actors who prefer wealthy citizens. From 2008 until 2018, Berlin artist Ina Wudtke's works focused on the displacement of low income tenants from their apartments in the city center, through massive rent hikes and with the help of judicial instruments like the so-called 'Modernisierungsklage', a tool used by landlords to revamp apartments for future high income tenants, or the so-called 'Eigenbedarfsklage', whereby the new owners of former public housing claim occupancy against longterm tenants. 'The Fine Art of Living' shows the political historical aspects behind the reality, the downside of the process by which both former East German state-owned buildings and West German public housing were turned into a profit-seeking real estate business.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhbition, Pirate Jenny, at the Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, October 12-November 25, 2018.
- Contributions by Andrej Holm, Elke Krasny, Dieter Lesage, Ursula Maria Probst, Ina Wudtke and Florian Wüst.
- Title from cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3943620913
- 9783943620917
- OCLC:
- 1059316900
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