Walkscapes.: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Careri, Francesco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8425218411 ISBN 13: 9788425218415

Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., 2002

Synopsis

Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the 'negotiated' space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and Surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from Minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city.

About this title

About the Author:

Francesco Careri (Rome, 1966) graduated in architecture in 1993 in Rome. His doctoral research began in Naples in 1996, resulting in a thesis entitled The Journey"". He is a member of the Stalker urban art workshop, an open interdisciplinary structure that conducts research on the city through experiences of transurbance in open spaces and in interaction with the inhabitants. He has taught at the Institut d'Arts Visuels dOrléans and the Schools of Architecture of Reggio Calabria and Roma Tre, experimenting together with the students on methods of reappropriation and direct intervention in public space. He has recently published a book on Constant and the Situationist city Constant imagined in the late 1950s and early 1960s ((Constant / New Babylon, una città nomade, Testo & Immagine, Turin 2001), and participated with Stalker in many international exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 8425218411
• ISBN 13: 9788425218415
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205