Sentences with phrase «documents city landscapes»

Often taking as his starting point the urban environment and therefore architecture — particularly those of Havana and Madrid, the two cities where the artist both lives and works — Garaicoa documents city landscapes, creating works steeped in provocative commentary which reflect a frustration with social, economic and political issues.

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Following a stint in the Navy, Baltrop returned to New York in the 1970s and immersed himself in the city's decaying landscape, documenting a post-industrial wasteland of vacant manufacturing buildings that included the piers located along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.

Earlier video works contextualise Tallerås's on - going investigations into the urban landscape, walking the back streets, and documenting the concealed communication at play across the city.

As documents of a lived landscape, they call to mind Freud's analogy of the aggregation of psychological experience with the architecture of the Eternal City.

Rather than documenting the city as we see it day - to - day, Winterbottom combines compelling compositions and unique perspectives to infuse the urban landscape with mood and challenge the prevailing (and rather stale) sense of the city.

During the 1930s, these artists documented and depicted American cities, small towns, and rural landscapes; some did so as a way to return to a simpler time away from industrialization, whereas others sought to make a political statement and lent their art to revolutionary and radical causes.

Instead, they are striking portraits that document his life, social circle, and surroundings, as well as the landscapes and streetscapes of his wartime sanctuary city.