TOURISTS LIKE US

This book opens up a new field of discussion at the crossroads between contemporary art and critical tourism. As common ground for t heoretical inquiry and artistic research, the notion of critical tourism asks us to question again our understanding of authenticity , the tourist gaze, the museification of landscape, the visual construction of place, post-romanticism, contemporary exoticism, site -specificity and global connectedness. The book specifically explores the role of the artist, and of the art institution, in the age of dest...[Leer más]