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The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Hardcover

Series: Princeton University Art Museum

Art HistoryGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Photography

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ISBN10: 0300207859
ISBN13: 9780300207859
Publisher: Princeton University Art Museum
Published: Jan 27 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 3.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.80 Depth: 10.70
Language: English

An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between art, architecture, social history, and public policy in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and '70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performance artists, and filmmakers turned conditions of crisis into sites for civic discourse and artistic expression. The City Lost and Found explores photographic and cinematic responses to the changing fabric of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles that contributed to a reconsideration of cities in popular media and urban policy during this period. This book raises timely questions about the role of art within the social, political, and physical landscape of cities.

Featuring contributions from more than 20 noted scholars in fields including art history, urban planning, architecture, and cultural studies, this is the first publication to address an important shift in photographic, cinematic, and planning practices based on close observations of streets, neighborhoods, and seminal events in the country's three largest cities. Over 200 illustrations bring together works by major artists and newly rediscovered projects to complete this outstanding resource on the art and architectural production during these turbulent decades.

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