Views of the urban landscape.
The Purloined Letter| N° d'inventaire | 25728 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 256 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782873175870 |
In the common imagination, the notion of landscape remains firmly attached to the rural world. Conversely, it remains complex to define what urban landscapes might constitute. This process, to which the emergence of social sciences and their conversations with artistic and literary fields contribute, intensifies with the development of imaginaries and techniques for disseminating representations of the city, whether through engraving, photography, low-cost printing or popular novels, then through cinema, video and 3D modeling. These representations of urban landscapes speak of uses as well as systems of domination, the formalization of colonial landscapes as much as the hegemony of the commodity landscape in the capitalist city, but also leisure landscapes or those shaped by demands for a right to the city.
In the common imagination, the notion of landscape remains firmly attached to the rural world. Conversely, it remains complex to define what urban landscapes might constitute. This process, to which the emergence of social sciences and their conversations with artistic and literary fields contribute, intensifies with the development of imaginaries and techniques for disseminating representations of the city, whether through engraving, photography, low-cost printing or popular novels, then through cinema, video and 3D modeling. These representations of urban landscapes speak of uses as well as systems of domination, the formalization of colonial landscapes as much as the hegemony of the commodity landscape in the capitalist city, but also leisure landscapes or those shaped by demands for a right to the city.