Writing on the image : architecture, the city and the politics of representation / Mark Dorrian.

Author
Dorrian, Mark [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
xxi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    From an examination of the politically-laden spectacle of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822, to an analyses of Google Earth's role in the construction of a new kind of political map, the essays in this book present innovative ways of understanding visual phenomena in historical and contemporary culture.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The King in the city : the iconology of George IV in Edinburgh, 1822
    • Cityscape with Ferris wheel : Chicago, 1893
    • Falling upon Warsaw : the shadow of Stalin's Palace of Culture
    • Adventures on the vertical : from the New Vision to "Powers of Ten"
    • 'The way the world sees London' : thoughts on a millennial urban spectacle
    • The aerial image : vertigo, transparency and miniaturisation
    • Clouds of architecture
    • Utopia on ice : the Sunny Mountain Ski-Dome as an allegory of the future
    • On Google Earth
    • Transcoded indexicality
    • Voice, monstrosity and flaying : Anish Kapoor's "Marsyas" as a silent sound work
    • A-disciiplinarity and architecture?
    ISBN
    • 1784530387
    • 9781784530389 ((hbk.))
    OCLC
    889164241
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