Böcker av Argyro Loukaki

This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption through art.

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious.' She argues that, by tapping into this.

Using illustrations of the Greek monuments and ruins, this book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek iconography for the Western world. It examines how Greek monuments are perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western culture is measured.