Writing on the image : architecture, the city and the politics of representation
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Writing on the image : architecture, the city and the politics of representation
（International library of visual culture, 18）
I.B. Tauris, 2015
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-257) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Paul Carter
Introduction
1. The King in the City: On the Iconology of George IV in Edinburgh
2. Cityscape with Ferris Wheel: Chicago 1893
3. Falling Upon Warsaw: The Shadow of Stalin's 'Palace of Culture'
4. Adventures on the Vertical: From the New Vision to Powers of Ten
5. 'The Way the World Sees London': Thoughts on a Millennial Urban Spectacle
6. The Aerial Image: Transparency, Vertigo and Miniaturisation
7. Clouds of Architecture
8. Utopia on Ice: The Sunny Mountain Ski Dome as an Allegory of the Future
9. On Google Earth
10. Transcoded Indexicality
11. Voice, Monstrosity and Flaying: Anish Kapoor's Marsyas as a Silent Sound Work
12. Architecture and A-disciplinarity?
Afterword by Ella Chmielewska
Notes on the chapters
Bibliography
Index
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