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Urban Space and Representation
Author(s): Maria Balshaw (Editor), Liam Kennedy
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication Date: 20 Dec. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0745313442
- ISBN-13: 9780745313443
Book Description
The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.
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About the Author
Maria Balshaw CBE is the first female director of the Tate art museums and galleries and the former director of the Whitworth and Manchester City Art Gallery. She is the author of Looking for Harlem (Pluto Press, 2000) and is the co-editor of Urban Representations (Pluto Press 1999).
Liam Kennedy is Emeritus Professor at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast.
