The City as Subject: Public Art and Urban Discourse in Berlin

by Carolyn S. Loeb

Book Overview

In The City as Subject, Carolyn S. Loeb examines distinctive bodies of public art in Berlin: legal and illegal murals painted in West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, post-reunification public sculptures, and images and sites from the street art scene. Her careful analyses show how these developed new architectural and spatial vocabularies that drew on the city's infrastructure and daily urban experience. These works challenged mainstream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350258644
• ISBN13: 9781350258648
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"