Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350258631
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9781350258624
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9781350258648
Inhalt:
"In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines three bodies of public art in Berlin in the postwar and contemporary periods: legal and illegal murals painted on exposed residential firewalls in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, public sculpture created primarily during the decade and a half following reunification, and the official Berlin Wall Memorial. Through careful analysis of these works, Loeb develops a conception of the city as not only shaped by its citizens but capable of connecting Berlin's inhabitants with the past. The three structures in question each represent a distinctive body of public art that has emerged in the city--and beyond their ostensible subjects, they are all embedded within Berlin's specifically urban landscape. These bodies together demonstrate public art's reliance on the city's own forms and materials as a means of visual expression. By considering the history, contexts, subjects, materials, and formal decisions manifested in each work, as well as their relationship to a prevailing climate of citizen activism, this book shows how these bodies of public art present a vision of Berlin that counters today's homogenizing practices, and in doing so each one keeps alive citizen-activists' conversations about the nature of the city that they desire."--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Public Art and the Affirmation of the City -- 2. West Berlin Walls, Street Art, and the Right to the City -- 3. City Spaces: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin -- 4. The Memorial Landscape of the Berlin Wall -- 5. Conclusion: Public Art within an Urban Discourse -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350258600
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350258648
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350258631
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