Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities : Art, Literature and Urban Spaces / by Monica Manolescu.
Manolescu, Monica., author
2018
PN770-PN779
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Title
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities : Art, Literature and Urban Spaces / by Monica Manolescu.
Author
Manolescu, Monica., author
ISBN
9783319986630
3319986635
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98663-0
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XVII, 254 pages 12 illustrations) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-98663-0 doi
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PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.04
Summary
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Buckingham, contemporary Situationist projects. The distinctive approach of the book highlights the interplay between texts and site-oriented practices, which have often been treated separately in critical discussions. Monica Manolescu considers spatial investigations that engage with the historical and social conditions of the urban environment and reflect on its mediated nature. Cartographic procedures that involve walking and surveying are interpreted as unsettling and subversive possibilities of representing and navigating the postwar American city. The book posits mapping as a critical nexus that opens up new ways of studying some of the most important postwar artistic engagements with New York and other American cities.
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Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Walking with Poe: "The Man of the Crowd" from text to street
Chapter 3 Transitions: Happenings and beyond
Chapter 4 Following Vito Acconci
Chapter 5 Eternal Cities: Rome/Passaic. On Robert Smithson's "Monuments of Passaic"
Chapter 6 Gordon Matta-Clark's urban slivers and "word works"
Chapter 7 Cartographies and the texture of cities: Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Chapter 8 Conclusion: "write a book to get lost."

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