Atlas Of Emotion: Journeys In Art, Architecture, And Film; Author: Bruno, Giuliana; Hardback; Book

Author: Bruno, Giuliana
Hardback; Book; 120 B&w and Colour Illustrations
495 pages
Published: March 2001
Verso
ISBN: 1859848028

With forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography, and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of thevisual arts. She insists throughout on the inseparability of seeing and travelling. In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messager; the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni; the architecture of cinema and its precursors. Visually luscious and daring in conception, the voyage opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film. Traversing a varied landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, this volume endeavours to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. Throughout the book the author insists on the inseperability of seeing and travelling.