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Writing on the Image - Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation (Hardcover)
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Writing on the Image - Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation (Hardcover)
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Ranging from an examination of the politically-laden spectacle of
George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822, as stage-managed by the
celebrated novelist Sir Walter Scott, to an analysis of Google
Earth's role in the construction of a new kind of political map,
one no longer structured by boundary lines and coloured territories
but instead through a politics of image resolution, the remarkable
essays in this book present innovative ways of understanding visual
phenomena in historical and contemporary culture. Writing on the
Image brings together a series of Mark Dorrian's celebrated
critical writings. Focusing on issues of elevated vision,
spectacle, atmosphere, and the limits of aesthetic experience,
Dorrian explores the politics of representation through a series of
close readings of the ideological effects of images in their
specific contexts. Seamlessly traversing sources from architecture,
art, literature, history, geography and film, the essays gathered
here exemplify Mark Dorrian's pioneering 'post-disciplinary'
approach to architecture and visual culture. Featuring a foreword
by Paul Carter, and an afterword by Ella Chmielewska, Writing on
the Image opens with a sequence of four historically-oriented
chapters that then lead on to considerations of key events in
architectural, urban and visual culture over the past decade.
Whether it be an eighteenth-century engraving that depicts a
magnified drop of tap water as an alien planet swarming with
monstrous creatures, an artwork showing a car with the silhouette
of a building mounted on its roof, the covering up of a tapestry in
the UN before a televised news conference, or a large-scale
satellite image that is affixed to the basement floor of a public
building, Dorrian shows how each artefact or event he examines is
eloquent in its ability to problematise a larger set of relations
beyond itself.
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