Entrée principale:

Dorrian, Mark, author.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xxi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Série(s):

International library of visual culture ; 18

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?

Résumé:

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.

ISBN:

1784530387
9781784530389 (hbk.)
(ebook)
9780857738363

Sujet:

Visual sociology.
Sociologie visuelle.
Architektur
Städtebau

Vedettes secondaires:

International library of visual culture ; 18.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 291477
Cote: BIB 235158
Statut: Disponible