生活形式通过北约汤普森(编辑)不朽的,配有大量插图的书提供了第一个全球复杂的画像和definition-defying流派的文化生产。在过去的20年里,出现了大量的艺术形式,用美学影响社会动态。这些作品往往由集体或来自社区环境;他们强调参与、对话和行动,出现的情况下从剧院到激进主义城市规划视觉艺术卫生保健。与生活的质感,这些艺术作品往往模糊了艺术与生活的界限。这本书提供了第一个全球的画像一个复杂的和令人兴奋的文化生产方式——实际上已经重新定义了当代艺术实践。生活作为主要展览的形式源于创造性的时候在纽约市。像展览,这本书是一个具有里程碑意义的调查超过100项目选择一个30人的馆长咨询团队;每个项目由彩色图像的记录。艺术家包括丹麦集体Superflex,赋予社区挑战企业利益; Turner Prize nominee Jeremy Deller, creator of socially and politically charged performance works; Women on Waves, who provide abortion services and information to women in regions where the procedure is illegal; and Santiágo Cirugeda, an architect who builds temporary structures to solve housing problems. Living as Form contains commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists who look at this phenomenon from a global perspective and broaden the range of what constitutes this form. Contributing authors Claire Bishop, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Anne Pasternak, Nato Thompson