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Text and image in the city: manuscript, print and visual culture in urban space
The essays in this collection discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors, that, in turn, impact upon the shape of the city itself. Many kinds of urban texts both manuscript and print are discussed, including chapbooks, periodicals, poetry, graffiti and street-signs. The essays derive from a range of disciplines including book history, urban history, cultural history, literary studies, art history and urban planning, and explore some key questions in urban cultural history, including the relationship between text, image and the city; the function of the text or image within an urban environment; how urban texts and images have been used by those in positions of power and by those with little or no power; the ways in which urban identity and values have been reflected in 'street literature', graffiti and subversive texts and images; and whether theories of urban space can help us to understand the relationship between text, image and the city. As such, this volume will serve to enhance the reader's understanding of the nature of urbanism from a historical perspective, the creation and representation of urban space, and the processes of urbanization. It investigates how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images actively affect the shaping of the city itself a mutually constitutive process whereby text, image and city create and sustain each other.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Citation
HINKS, J. and ARMSTRONG, C.M., 2017. Text and image in the city: manuscript, print and visual culture in urban space. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Publisher
© Cambridge Scholars PublishingVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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1443843881;9781443843881Publisher version
Language
- en