After-Images of the City / / ed. by Dieter Ingenschay, Joan Ramon Resina.

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 24 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Concept of After-Image and the Scopic Apprehension of the City
  • CHAPTER TWO. City Future in City Past: Balzac's Cartographic Imagination
  • CHAPTER THREE. London: Tomorrow's Yesterday, Future Images of the Past
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Berlin 2000: "The Image of an Empty Place"
  • CHAPTER FIVE. From Rose of Fire to City of Ivory
  • CHAPTER SIX. Bees at a Loss: Images of Madrid (before and) after La colmena
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The World in Our Head: Images and After-Images of the City in the Works of Albert Cohen
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Tijuana: Shadowtext for the Future
  • CHAPTER NINE. After-Images of the "New" New York and the Alfred Stieglitz Circle
  • CHAPTER TEN. The City Vanishes
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index