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Writing on the Image | Architecture, the city and the Politics of Representation | Mark Dorrian | 9781784530389

Writing on the Image

Architecture, the city and the Politics of Representation

Auteur:Mark Dorrian

Uitgever:I.B. Tauris

ISBN: 978-17-84530-38-9

  • Hardcover
  • Engels
  • 288 pagina's
  • 30 jul. 2015

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 analyses of Google Earth's role in the construction of a new kind of political map (one that is no longer primarily 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, developed over the last twelve years. Focusing on issues of elevated vision, spectacle, atmosphere and the limits of aesthetic experience, Dorrian explores the ideological effects of images, in their specific contexts, and the politics of representation. Seamlessly drawing together sources from architecture, art, literature, history, geography and film, the essays gathered here exemplify Mark Dorrian's pioneering 'post-disciplinary' approach to visual culture.

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