Done. Book: Picturing the City of Society - Couverture rigide

Scheppe, Wolfgang

 
9783775727730: Done. Book: Picturing the City of Society
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3775727736 ISBN 13 : 9783775727730
Editeur : Hatje Cantz, 2010

Synopsis

In his project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe dealt with Venice as a prototype for the escalation of the globalized city. Now, in this visual study, the German philosopher, who lives and teaches in Venice, has turned to this city yet again for an investigation into the means and scale of representation for the purpose of discovering how its image archives can enable understanding its social character. In this conceptual work, entitled Done.Book, he relates two obsessive attempts at archiving Venice: John Ruskin s notebooks and the never-before-seen collection of photographs taken by a resident of the city s working-class district adjacent to the Biennale s Giardini. Both evince the conviction that the cognitive quality of the image is a means of acquiring insight, and both also stem from a self-imposed ethical commitment to provide a comprehensive representation of the details of an urban network whose truth can be glimpsed in the minutiae, the hidden details.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In his project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe dealt with Venice as a prototype for the escalation of the globalized city. Now, in this visual study, the German philosopher, who lives and teaches in Venice, has turned to this city yet again for an investigation into the means and scale of representation for the purpose of discovering how its image archives can enable understanding its social character. In this conceptual work, entitled Done.Book, he relates two obsessive attempts at archiving Venice: John Ruskin s notebooks and the never-before-seen collection of photographs taken by a resident of the city s working-class district adjacent to the Biennale s Giardini. Both evince the conviction that the cognitive quality of the image is a means of acquiring insight, and both also stem from a self-imposed ethical commitment to provide a comprehensive representation of the details of an urban network whose truth can be glimpsed in the minutiae, the hidden details.

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Éditeur
Hatje Cantz
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3775727736
ISBN 13 
9783775727730
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
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Personne responsable
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