| Fragments of the European City Contributor(s): Barber, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0948462663 ISBN-13: 9780948462665 Publisher: Reaktion Books OUR PRICE: $18.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin. Provocatively written as a series of interlocking poetic fragments, the text evokes the formation of metropolitan 'identity' as it ricochets between the physical surface of the city and the vulnerable but manipulating consciousness of city dwellers. Stephen Barber travelled through the cities of Eastern Europe while writing this book between 1990 and 1995. His book represents a reinvention of 'travel writing' and will be of vital interest to students of European history, cinema and media. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - General - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 96189235 |
| Series: Topographics |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.11" W x 9.18" (0.54 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin. Taking as its subject the intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen, it charts the virulent implosions of culture, the distortions and violence that give city-living its fractured and hallucinatory quality. Provocatively written as a series of inter-locking poetic fragments, the text evokes the formation of metropolitan identity as it ricochets between the physical surface of the city and the vulnerable but manipulating consciousness of city dwellers. Barber has discovered a powerful new vocabulary - a vocabulary charged with the visual and sonic impact of the cinema. Like the city, the text pulsates, creatively chaotic, raw and exhilarating. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barber, Stephen: - Stephen Barber is professor at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, and a visiting research fellow at the Free University Berlin and Keio University Tokyo. |