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Walkscapes Walking As Aesthetic Practice Francesco Careri 2017 Paperback

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Synopsis: Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the 'negotiated' space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and Surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from Minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city., In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutely familiar to historians-in which an experience linked to walking represented a turning point. These are the passages from Dada to Surrealism (1921-1924), from the Lettrist International to the Situationist International (1956-1957), and from Minimal Art to Land Art (1966-1967). By analyzing these episodes we simultaneously obtain a history of the roamed city that goes from the banal city of Dada to the entropic city of Robert Smithson, passing through the unconscious and oneiric city of the Surrealists and the playful and nomadic city of the Situationists. What the rovings of the artists discover is a liquid city, an amniotic fluid where the spaces of the elsewhere take spontaneous form, an urban archipelago in which to navigate by drifting. A city in which the spaces of staying are the islands in the great sea formed by the space of going . Fundamentally, for Careri, the act of walking-although it does not constitute a physical construction of a space-implies a transformation of a place and its meanings. The mere physical presence of humans in an unmapped space, as well as the variations of perceptions they register while crossing it, already constitute forms of transformation of the landscape that-without leaving tangible signs-culturally modify the meaning of space and therefor the space itself. From the Introduction by Gilles A. Tiberghien In Walkscapes , Francesco Careri does more than write a book on walking considered as a critical tool, an obvious way of looking at landscape, and as a form of emergence of a certain kind of art and architecture. ...H]e offers us a rereading of the history of art in terms of the practice of walking (such as he conceives of it), from the erection of the menhirs, through Egypt and Ancient Greece, up to the protagonists of Land Art. ...] The idea suffusing the book as a whole, and which the author convincingly describes ...] is that walking has always generated architecture and landscape, and that this practice, all but totally forgotten by architects themselves, has been reactivated by poets, philosophers and artists capable of seeing precisely what is not there, in order to make 'something' be there. ...] Such an enterprise has a genuine 'political' stake-in the primal sense of the word-a way of keeping art, urbanism and the social project at an equal, and sufficient, distance from each other in order to effectively illuminate these empty spaces we have such need of to live well. From the Foreword by Christopher Flynn Careri traces a genealogy of walking across the twentieth century here, but the aggregate does more than that. This is a smart book, and more importantly, a useful one for those interested in what it means to walk through the banal cityscapes and suburbs of a world whose relationship to urbanism is once more in the midst of radical change. Publication Year: 2017 Topic: Walking, Landscape LC Classification Number: NA2500.C3 2017 Genre: Sports & Recreation, Architecture Illustrator: Yes Dewey Decimal: 712.01 Format: Trade Paperback Item Length: 9 in Item Height: 0.5 in Publisher: Culicidae Press Book Title: Walkscapes : Walking As an Aesthetic Practice ISBN-10: 1683150082 Dewey Edition: 23 Intended Audience: Trade Designed by: polytekton brand: Culicidae Press ISBN-13: 9781683150084 Number of Pages: 204 Pages gtin13: 9781683150084 Item Width: 6 in Language: English Author: Francesco Careri

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  1. This book completely changed how I see walking—it's not just movement, it's art! Careri blends theory and practice in a way that makes urban exploration feel revolutionary. The writing is engaging, and the ideas stick with you long after you put it down. Perfect for anyone who loves cities, architecture, or just thinking differently about everyday actions. A must-read that feels fresh and inspiring!

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