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Some Cities - Softcover

Burgin, Victor

 
9780520206366: Some Cities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520206363 ISBN 13: 9780520206366
Verlag: University of California Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

At once poetic and provocative, Victor Burgin's Some Cities deftly juxtaposes photographs and texts in a manner that invites comparisons to the urban essays of filmmaker Chris Marker and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. Best known for his artistic exploration of the divergent realities of images and words, Burgin is a gifted practitioner of montage with an acute sensitivity to all that is vibrant, uncanny, and appealing in the contemporary metropolis.

Some Cities collects thoughts, places, and photographs along a life route that has taken the author from the North of England to his present home in northern California. From the cherry blossoms in a Tokyo park, to the skyscrapers of Singapore, it presents a series of stunning close-ups of the multicultural character of the late twentieth-century metropole.

The itinerary of his book includes stops in Berlin, Warsaw, Woomera, New York, and the islands of Stromboli and Tobago. A prime example of the "spatial turn" associated with contemporary cultural studies and postmodern theories of subjectivity,Some Cities is a tour-de-force of subtle wit and imagination that employs Burgin's visual and verbal skills in the project of creating a suitable artistic language for representing the complex and shifting realities of the metropolis. "Unlike the promises we make to each other," Burgin writes, "the promise of the city can never be broken."

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Victor Burgin is Professor in the Board of Studies in History of Consciousness University of California, Santa Cruz.

Victor Burgin is Professor in the Board of Studies in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His books includeIn/Different Spaces (California, 1996), The End of Art Theory (1986),Between (1986), and the collection Thinking Photography (1982). His photographic and video works have been exhibited worldwide and are represented in such public collections as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate Gallery and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Aus dem Klappentext

"Victor Burgin is an important artist whose work has played a major role for many years. He has also made a number of decisive contributions as a cultural theorist. What is so captivating aboutSome Cities is that it combines both sides of his work. The photographs and the text address the elusive yet pervasive condition of the city. The form is that of the travel book, where each city, no matter how 'foreign,' is treated as home. So much of our discourse over the last one and a half centuries has depended on such texts.Some Cities will take its rightful place in this lineage, one that will no doubt continue."Mark Wigley, Princeton University

"Victor Burgin extends his exceptional skills in managing the text/image interaction to the form of the book: a meditation on cities that is at the same time an autobiography, a work of cultural criticism, an essay on the history of industrialized culture, and a dramatic enactment of the functions of irony, humor, and political analysis in a world irrevocably altered by the mobility of people, things, and ideas in our time."Norman Bryson, Harvard University

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520206363
ISBN 13 
9780520206366
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
223
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