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Book

Century city : art and culture in the modern metropolis

Call Number

  • 709.04 C397 (CEN)

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Publication Information

London : Tate Pub., 2001.

Physical Description

295 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Notes

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."

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 Schlör
  • How to create a culture capital : reflections on urban markets and places / Sharon Zukin
  • Other cities, other futures / Ziauddin Sardar.

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