This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cuttingedge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of Useful Art is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces, services and lives. Byrne demonstrates that networks of artistled activism and communitybased direct action can provide a collaborative playbook of impactful and inclusive alternatives. From Turner Prizewinning urban regeneration projects to bakeries, vegetable gardens and multiuse arts spaces, Useful Art has enormous potential for bringing people together, recovering and preserving local skills and knowledge and reclaiming artistic endeavour for realworld good. Exploring an international selection of projects, exhibitions and activism, this important new work champions the shift from aesthetics to use value, challenging traditional ways of seeing the world symbolically through art. Reaching beyond the financial logic of the art world, Byrne shows how Useful Art can offer an artistic toolkit for implementing radical change.

Binding: Paperback;286 pages; Publisher: Manchester University Press (P648); Classification: ABA; Weight: 436 g; Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 24

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