Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime

Book Overview

This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption through art.

Urban art transforms the city into a human-made sublime which is explored in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367132966
• ISBN13: 9780367132965
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"