Choice: Outstanding Academic Title of the Year; Guardian: Book of the Year; 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Prize Winner Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. Throughout these pages Bruno insists on the inseparability of seeing and travelling. In an evocative montage of words and pictures she emphasizes that the voyeur must also be the voyageur, that "sight" and "site" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messagem; the film-making of Peter Greenaway and Michaelangelo Antonioni; the origins of the movie palace and its precursors, the camera obscura, the curiosity cabinet, the tableaux vivant; and on her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, the journey for which Bruno is our cicerone opens new vistas and understandings at every turn. This is an affective mapping that ultimately puts us in touch with mental landscapes and inner worlds.
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A hugely ambitious mapping of the complex intertwinings of film, architecture, and the body. We think of film as a predominantly visual medium, but Bruno insists that it is as much about the positioning and movement of the body in space. . . This adventurous book will be of interest to anyone concerned with what we might call "mobility studies": the attempt to understand cultural performances not as the manifestation of fixed structures but as the expression of restless energies. -- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
Engrossing...captures the excitement of fitting discovery to theory in a way sadly missing from much fossilized academic 'film theory' . -- Ian Christie, Times Higher Education Supplement
One of those critical works packed with learning that takes you on a unique, exhilarating ride through its author's imagination. -- Marina Warner, The Guardian
[A]n exhilarating ride...a whole new understanding of spatial experience. -- Mark Wigley, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
Engrossing...captures the excitement of fitting discovery to theory in a way sadly missing from much fossilized academic 'film theory' . -- Ian Christie, Times Higher Education Supplement
One of those critical works packed with learning that takes you on a unique, exhilarating ride through its author's imagination. -- Marina Warner, The Guardian
[A]n exhilarating ride...a whole new understanding of spatial experience. -- Mark Wigley, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
About the Author
Giuliana Bruno is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book, Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (Princeton University), won the 1993 Katherine Kovacs prize for the best book in film studies.
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