"Victor Burgin is an important artist whose work has played a major role for many years. He has also made a number of decisive contributions as a cultural theorist. What is so captivating about "Some Cities" is that it combines both sides of his work. The photographs and the text address the elusive yet pervasive condition of the city. The form is that of the travel book, where each city, no matter how 'foreign, ' is treated as home. So much of our discourse over the last one and a half centuries has depended on such texts. ...
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"Victor Burgin is an important artist whose work has played a major role for many years. He has also made a number of decisive contributions as a cultural theorist. What is so captivating about "Some Cities" is that it combines both sides of his work. The photographs and the text address the elusive yet pervasive condition of the city. The form is that of the travel book, where each city, no matter how 'foreign, ' is treated as home. So much of our discourse over the last one and a half centuries has depended on such texts. "Some Cities" will take its rightful place in this lineage, one that will no doubt continue."--Mark Wigley, Princeton University "Victor Burgin extends his exceptional skills in managing the text/image interaction to the form of the book: a meditation on cities that is at the same time an autobiography, a work of cultural criticism, an essay on the history of industrialized culture, and a dramatic enactment of the functions of irony, humor, and political analysis in a world irrevocably altered by the mobility of people, things, and ideas in our time."--Norman Bryson, Harvard University
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