Skyline: The Narcissistic City

by Hubert Damisch

Book Overview

One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps, Meyer Shapiro's collected essays--here engages a subject that has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732450
• ISBN13: 9780804732451
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"