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The City as Subject - Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin (Hardcover)
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The City as Subject - Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin (Hardcover)
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In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies
of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West
Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, post-reunification public
sculptures, and images and sites from the street art scene. Her
careful analyses show how these developed new architectural and
spatial vocabularies that drew on the city’s infrastructure and
daily urban experience. These works challenged mainstream urban
development practices and engaged with citizen activism and with a
wider civic discourse about what a city can be. Loeb extends this
urban focus to her examination of the extensive outdoor
installation of the Berlin Wall Memorial and its mandate to
represent the history of the city’s division. She studies its
surrounding neighborhoods to show that, while the Memorial adopts
many of the urban-oriented vocabularies established by the earlier
works of public art she examines, it truncates the story of urban
division, which stretches beyond the Wall’s existence. Loeb
suggests that, by embracing more multi-vocal perspectives, the
Memorial could encourage the kind of participatory and
heterogeneous construction of the city championed by the earlier
works of public art.
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