Artists and People

First published in 1978, Artists and People examines the formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts. The experience of creative artists who have taken up ‘residencies’ in schools, libraries and art centres is contrasted with the unique forms of expression developed by local communities themselves in new towns, housing estates, rural centres, and inner cities, in areas ranging from Tower Hamlets in London, through Craigmillar in Scotland, to