THE SOCIAL TURN

'The Social Turn'

With the failure of the idealised 'Modernism' and the transofmation of information to a commodity through 'Post Modernism' and the more prelevant;
of the Artist as Curator, during the 1980 to the present day, art has seen a more social importance.

Exhibitions working deeply for and about society and its role within art, how art mirrors social change and how more imporantly it ignites change.

An example of how this happened is sharply demonstrated with the failure of the social development of
le corbusier unite d'habitation firminy curated by Yves Aupetitallot; the building symbolising

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