Bøger af William Chapman Sharpe

Tracing the vast visual legacy of walking from cave art to contemporary performance, this thought-provoking study features works by artists such as Botticelli, Claude Monet, Maya Lin, and Pope.L and shows how walking has permeated our visual culture ever since humans began to depict themselves in art.

Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.