Cities, words, and images: from Poe to Scorsese

"Cities are concrete realities. Words and images have long been used to describe the presence of cities and their physical impact on human life. From the nineteenth century to today, writers, critics, philosophers, architects and film-makers have shown conflicting attitudes towards the city, fr...

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Main Author: Lombardo, Patrizia 1950-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2003
Series:Language, discourse, society
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Online Access:Table of contents
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Summary:"Cities are concrete realities. Words and images have long been used to describe the presence of cities and their physical impact on human life. From the nineteenth century to today, writers, critics, philosophers, architects and film-makers have shown conflicting attitudes towards the city, from rejection to idolatry. This book includes Baudelaire's Paris; Poe's urban fantasies; Hofmannsthal's and Musil's Vienna; Massimo Cacciari's Venice; and New York as conceived by Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi, and Martin Scorcese. Cities, Words and Images reflects on the changes in human perception created by urbanization and the way in which these changes are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content. The urban theme is fundamental in order to understand modern art, whatever the media, and regardless of national frontiers."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-241) and index
Physical Description:xiii, 251 p. 23 cm
ISBN:033369628X

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