Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities Art, Literature and Urban Spaces /

• Main Author: Manolescu, Monica (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; Cities and towns-History.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; Urban History.

Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smith...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Walking with Poe: "The Man of the Crowd" from text to street
• Chapter 3 Transitions: Happenings and beyond
• Chapter 4 Following Vito Acconci
• Chapter 5 Eternal Cities: Rome/Passaic. On Robert Smithson's "Monuments of Passaic"
• Chapter 6 Gordon Matta-Clark's urban slivers and "word works"
• Chapter 7 Cartographies and the texture of cities: Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
• Chapter 8 Conclusion: "write a book to get lost". .