Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities Art, Literature and Urban Spaces /

Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smith...

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Main Author: Manolescu, Monica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Subjects:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Cities and towns-History.
ISBN:9783319986630
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Walking with Poe: "The Man of the Crowd" from text to street
  • Chapter 3 Transitions: Happenings and beyond
  • Chapter 4 Following Vito Acconci
  • Chapter 5 Eternal Cities: Rome/Passaic. On Robert Smithson's "Monuments of Passaic"
  • Chapter 6 Gordon Matta-Clark's urban slivers and "word works"
  • Chapter 7 Cartographies and the texture of cities: Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
  • Chapter 8 Conclusion: "write a book to get lost". .

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