Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society an Inquiry into the Depth of Visual Archives; the Venetian Notebooks of John Ruskin Versus the Picture Library of Alvio Gavagnin

Scheppe, Wolfgang

ISBN 10: 3775727736 / ISBN 13: 9783775727730

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2019

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 368 pages; in English; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society an Inquiry into the Depth of Visual Archives; the Venetian Notebooks of John Ruskin Versus the Picture Library of Alvio Gavagnin
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775727736
• ISBN 13: 9783775727730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the depth of visual archives," and how the archives of a city can aid an understanding of its society. Under this rubric, Scheppe compares two obsessive attempts at archiving or summating Venice: the Venetian notebooks of English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), compiled for his classic study Stones of Venice, and previously unseen photographs assembled by Alvio Gavagnin (born 1944), a contemporary resident of the city's working-class district. Despite their differences, both projects stem from a similar self-imposed commitment on the part of their makers: to provide a comprehensive representation of the details of an urban network, whose truth can be glimpsed in the minutiae and hidden particulars.