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 Trust played a major�role in the struggle to establish community arts in Great Britain and Community Art gives their story worldwide relevance. It
examines�how this�experiment reimagined the place of the artist in the making of art and challenges common understandings of the categories of� "art", "expertise", and "community" as well
as�the place of the individualized practice of the gallery artist.
