Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern MetropolisThis is the catalogue of Tate Modern's inaugural exhibition being held in February 2001. The city provides the social, aesthetic, historical, and political framework within which to explore arts and ideas of the 20th century. The book focuses on nine cities from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe which have all at specific moments in the 20th century acted as cauldrons of innovations across visual culture. It examines a multitude of artistic practices including architecture, design, film, performance art, philosophy, poetry, literature, and music, as well as painting, photography, and sculpture. |
Contents
Sponsors Foreword | 6 |
Foreword UMMU N | 7 |
CENTURY CITY Iwona Blazwick | 8 |
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1959 Photograph 50.8 Public Record architects architecture artists avant-garde Aviv Baileys Archives Berlin Berman Bombay building centre Century City cinema city's Collection Merrill colonial colour Contemporary Art cosmopolitanism Courtesy created Cubist cultural EGON SCHIELE essay exhibition FERREIRA GULLAR film Gaja Gamini Gallery Georges Costakis Gordon Matta-Clark Gouache Hélio Oiticica Highlife Hussein Chalayan Ibadan identity India industrial Ink on paper Kraus Lagos Leopold Museum Lithograph living London England Loos Lygia Magazine Matta-Clark Mayakovsky Mbari megalopolis metropolis Mixed media Modern Art modernist Mono-ha Moscow Mumbai Neoconcrete Nick Knight Nigeria Office Image Library Oil on canvas organised Oskar Kokoschka painting Paris Paul Elliman pencil on paper Photograph 30.5 Picasso political Poster Private Collection production published Record Office Image Schiele sculpture Sekine social society SoHo space Street style supported by London Tate theatre Tokyo Untitled urban Vienna visual VKHUTEMAS Watercolour Wittgenstein women writers York
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