This fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective, using the example of the Free Form Arts Trust whose founders were determined to use their fine arts visual expertise to connect with working-class people through collaborate art projects. In seeking to give the residents of poor communities, who have traditionally been excluded from the world of gallery art, a greater role in shaping their built environment, the artists' aesthetic practice itself was significantly transformed. In their thirty-five year history the Free Form Arts...