After Images Of The City

Author : Joan Ramon Resina,Dieter Ingenschay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501729669

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After-Images of the City by Joan Ramon Resina,Dieter Ingenschay Pdf

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition. In essays written for this volume, scholars of literary and visual studies, the history of architecture, cultural theory, and urban geography explore the ways perceptual or conceptual paradigms of the city supersede or replace others, while at the same time retaining the "after-image" of what went before. The writers touch on a wide variety of issues related to contemporary urban cultures as they journey through cities including New York, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Tijuana, Berlin, and London. Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Camilo José Cela, Honoré de Balzac, and Alfred Stieglitz, their approach is broadly cultural rather than technical. After-Images of the City takes into account the intrinsic instability of the image and reveals that representations of the modern metropolis cannot be fixed in time and history.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Helena Buffery,Carlota Caulfield
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783161430

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Barcelona by Helena Buffery,Carlota Caulfield Pdf

This fully illustrated, edited volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The volume will contribute to the excavation of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period, although its primary focus will be on the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.

Author : Peter Sramek
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783202270

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Piercing Time by Peter Sramek Pdf

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville’s photographs with a black cloth, tripod and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan. Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.

Author : Javier Munoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317487319

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The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies by Javier Munoz-Basols,Manuel Delgado Morales,Laura Lonsdale Pdf

"The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essays that reflect the evolving ways in which researchers think and write about the Iberian Peninsula. Features include: A comprehensive approach to the different languages and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula; -- Five chronological sections spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; -- A state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline with promising areas for future research; -- An array of topics of an interdisciplinary nature (history and politics, language and literature, cultural studies and visual arts), focusing on the cultural distinctiveness of Iberian traditions; -- New perspectives and avenues of inquiry that aim to promote a comparative mode within Iberian Studies and Hispanism. The fifty authoritative, original essays will provide readers with a diverse cross-section of texts that will enrich their knowledge of Iberian Studies from an international perspective"--

Author : Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823297795

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Crossing Back by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick Pdf

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itself Marianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals. A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions.

Author : Carol Ascher
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : UCSC:32106019981957

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Afterimages by Carol Ascher Pdf

"Born several weeks after her parents' arrival in the United States, Carol Ascher came of age in Topeka, Kansas, where her father, a Vienna-trained lay analyst, found work among the group of refugee clinicians recruited there for the Menninger Clinic. Growing up, Ascher's challenge was to reconcile the Midwestern views of her community; the irrepressible optimism of her mother and her mother's tendency to romanticize her Berlin childhood; and the more sardonic views of her father and his highly cultured emigre circle, for whom memory was both illness and cure."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Zlatan Krajina,Deborah Stevenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351813266

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The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication by Zlatan Krajina,Deborah Stevenson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together diverse perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity and community. Exploring the rise and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast-developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of ‘the right to the city’; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; ‘smart’/cyber urbanism; the emergence of Media City production spaces and clusters. Charting key debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media and their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual cultures, urban geography, art history, politics, cultural studies, anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy think tanks.

Author : Diane Negra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230112100

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Old and New Media after Katrina by Diane Negra Pdf

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first century crisis narratives centralizing uncertainties about race, class, region, government, and public safety. Looking closely at the organization of public memory of Katrina, this collection provides a timely and intellectually fruitful assessment of the complex ways in which media forms and national events are hopelessly entangled.

Author : William B. Taylor
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian shrines
ISBN : 9780826348531

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Shrines and Miraculous Images by William B. Taylor Pdf

William Taylor explores the use of local and regional shrines, and devotion to images of Christ and Mary, including Our Lady of Guadalupe, to get to the heart of the politics and practices of faith in Mexico before the Reforma.

Author : Guido Boulboullé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015062575744

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After Images by Guido Boulboullé Pdf

German curator Peter Friese has been intrigued by his country's ability to atone for some of the crimes of the Nazi era while other atrocities remain buried in the national subconcious. To explore the idea of the transformability of memory, Friese selected 12 diverse contemporary artists from various countries-each of whom had at some time produced art reflecting on the Holocaust-to elaborate on the role of art in exploring such layered and complex issues. Included are noted artists Christian Boltanski, General Idea, Shimon Attie and Jochen Gerz, among others, and eight in-depth essays. A thought-provoking exhibition catalog.

Author : Shepherd Ivory Franz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : After-images
ISBN : UOM:39015039590909

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On After-images ... by Shepherd Ivory Franz Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015065850656

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Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : HARVARD:HNV5HG

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Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000093087561

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Journal for the Study of British Cultures by Anonim Pdf