An award-winning and highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual art
Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Streetwalking on a Ruined Map, winner of the 1993 Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for the best book in film studies, Public Intimacy and Surface.
One of those critical works packed with learning and insights that
at the same time takes you on an exhilarating ride through its
author's imagination.
*Guardian*
In this astonishingly provocative, captivating, tender, elegant,
and passionate nonchronological, interdisciplinary book, Bruno
connects splendidly a psychogeography of cultural life. . . She
takes the readers through a poetico-scholarly and picturesque
journey-a visual travelogue, based both on philosophical theories
and erudite conjectures ... Bruno writes like an expressionist
painter, who deeply captures the invisible and the
instantaneous.
*Choice*
A hugely ambitious mapping of the complex intertwinings of film,
architecture, and the body. This adventurous book will be of
interest to anyone concerned with what we might call 'mobility
studies': the attempt to understand cultural performances not as
the manifestation of fixed structures but as the expression of
restless energies.
*Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University*
In an exhilarating ride, the reader is transported across this vast
hidden landscape to reach a whole new understanding of spatial
experience.
*Mark Wigley, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University*
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