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Urban Art and the City - Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime (Hardcover)
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Urban Art and the City - Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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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 through art. Urban art
transforms the city into a human-made sublime which is explored in
the context of the Eastern Mediterranean. The book probes this
process primarily through the example of Athens and Byzantine
Constantinople, but also Jerusalem, Cyprus and regional cities,
revealing how urban space unavoidably encompasses a spatial and
temporal palimpsest which is constantly emerging. It presents new
ideas for both the theorization and sensuous conception of artistic
reality, architecture, and planning attributes. These extend from
archaic, classical and Byzantine urban splendour to current urban
decline as constitution and attack on the sublime and back. Urban
processes of contestation and redemption respond recently to the
new 'imperialism of debt' and the positivist, technocratic
understandings and demands of Euro-governments and neoliberal
institutions, while still evoking older forms of spatial power.
Offering fresh notions on art, architecture, space, antiquity,
(post)-modernity and politics of the region, this book will appeal
to scholars and students of geography, urban studies, art,
restoration, and film theory, architecture, landscape design,
planning, anthropology, sociology and history.
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