The street as an area of production, consumption and action of art in 20th century

In 20th century which started with all benefits and disadvantages of Bourgeois Revolution, Enlightenment and Industrialization, all social, economical, cultural and political transformations emerged by the fast development of capitalist industry influenced directly both street and art and also the relation between them. In this sense, the street, beyond being only a physical space, was also at the heart of all kind of developments and dynamics in social, urban and everyday life. Throughout the century, the art -as an instrument or an agent of all these transformations, as a subject or an object of all these developments- played an effective part in one way or the other.For the field of art, the 20th century was the period of settling accounts with its past nineteen centuries in every sense. The necessity of this questionning is the mentioned transformations which means the new technics and forms, the new social and cultural structures, the new systems recovered old ones. In this contexte, the artist could take place on the street either for discovering all these reforms in its place, either for entering in a struggle of power and freedom against the new system, or for surviving and getting itself a place, a part or a gain in this system. Studying the reasons, the processes and the results of all related actors and instruments of artistic field taking place on the street, this work tries to piece all the related concepts, approachs, movements and practices together.