Urban art and the city : creating, destroying, and reclaiming the sublime / edited by Argyro Loukaki.
This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption t...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
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London, England ; New York, New York :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Rangatū: | Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city.
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- Table Of Contents Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on contributors List of figures List of maps and diagrams Acknowledgments Introduction: urban art between archetypal sublimity and ultramodern insurgency Part 1 Creating, imitating, and destroying the urban sublime and its materiality: from Athenian classicism to neoclassicism and the present 1 Ancient Greek cities as works of art 2 Assaulting the archetypes: urban materiality and the current adulation and hatred for marble in Athens Part 2 The artistic sublime of the Byzantine Cosmopolis: between imitation of classicism and the Christian Dogma 3 On real and imaginary cities: textual and visual representation of cities and the perception of urban space in the Byzantine world 4 Art and urban planning as identity and reflection of the great city: (Constantinople) and the sacred polis (Jerusalem) in the Byzantine provinces: the case of Cyprus 5 Depictions of the Virgin in an 11th-century hexaptych at Sinai as perception of the city of Constantinople 6 Between convention and reality: visual approaches to cities in post-Byzantine icon painting Part 3 Current crisis and urban insurgency as contestation of the urban sublime: from generic theory to Athenian praxis 7 The political art of urban insurgency 8 Athens, invisible city of the 21st century: from Olympic illusions to crisis and its contestation by the urban grassroots 9 Bodies in the city: Athenian street art and the biopolitics of the 'Greek Crisis' Part 4 (Re)-constituting the sublime image of the city: nature, architecture, and politics in art representations of modern and ultramodern space 10 Urban gardening as a collective participatory art: landscape and political qualities related to the concept of the 'sublime' 11 'Trikoupis Refuses to Unveil Himself in Order Not to See.': a memorial statue and national identity in early 20th-century Greece 12 Dialogues with modernity in the city of Ioannina: Aris Konstantinidis, Natalia Mela, Michael Kanakis, and Paris Prekas 13 Painting versions of the Athenian landscape: Spyros Vassiliou and Yiannis Adamakis 14 The mythical landscape of Andrei Tarkovsky: notes on the interpretation of cinematic space in Stalker Concluding thoughts Index.