Public art tourism: atmospheric stories in city margins

Hilary Downey; John F.  Sherry Jr.

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2023.103606

Public art tourism: atmospheric stories in city margins

Hilary Downey^*, John F. Sherry Jr.

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Queen's Business School (QBS)

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Abstract

Cities play a pivotal role in progressing cultural tourism, embracing everyday life, where particular cityscapes afford a diversity of cultural practices. The ethnographic storying of two city public artworks presents a backcloth of historical, cultural and religio-political outlooks. Public art and idiosyncratic atmospherics provide conflicting narratives of how pubic art attends wider religion-tourism concerns. Both public artworks observe ‘together-apart’ imaginings of a past-present legacy. This study traces their effect, through researcher short vignettes, visual culture and poetic reflection. This study contributes to the religion-tourism nexus, drawing on political, cultural, religious and social perspectives, which underpin these urban tourism sites. Public art has to make sense, have cultural competence and resonate with citizens.

Original language	English
Article number	103606
Number of pages	17
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	101
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103606
Publication status	Published - 01 Jul 2023

Keywords

public art; atmospherics; idiosyncratic; Tourism; cities; culture

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General Arts and Humanities

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