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Century city : art and culture in the modern metropolis / edited by Iwona Blazwick.

Title
Century city : art and culture in the modern metropolis / edited by Iwona Blazwick.
Publication
London : Tate Publishing, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Blazwick, Iwona
  • Tate Modern (Gallery)
Description
295 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Explores the relationship between the metropolis and the creation of art, focusing on the art centers of Paris, New York, Vienna, Moscow, London, Bombay, Lagos, and Tokyo, and profiling the artists who were inspired by those locales.
Alternative Title
Art and culture in the modern metropolis
Subject
  • Tate Modern (Gallery) > Exhibitions
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art and society
  • Arts, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Cities and towns in art > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, Feb. 1-Apr. 29, 2001.
  • "Century City explores the relationship between the metropolis and the creation of art. It focuses not only on the traditional twentieth-century art centres of Paris, New York, Vienna, Moscow and London; but also on other intensely creative environments: Bombay/Mumbai, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-291).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Century city / Iwona Blazwick -- Bombay/Mumbai 1992-2001 / Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Lagos 1955-1970 / Okwui Enwezor and Olu Oguibe -- London 1990-2001 / Emma Dexter -- Moscow 1916-1930 / Lutz Becker -- New York 1969-1974 / Donna de Salvo -- Paris 1905-1915 / Serge Fauchereau -- Rio de Janeiro 1950-1964 / Paulo Venancio Filho -- Tokyo 1967-1973 / Reiko Tomii -- Vienna 1908-1918 / Richard Calvocoressi and Keith Hartley -- How urban culture was saved in the levant / Joachim Schlor -- How to create a culture capital : reflections on urban markets and places / Sharon Zukin -- Other.
  • cities, other futures / Ziauddin Sardar.
ISBN
1854373447
OCLC
  • 50676792
  • SCSB-11380792
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library