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The introductory chapter sets out to define the subject, methodology, concepts and corpus explored in the book. It dwells on the terms of the title, which suggest a focus on artistic strategies of mapping New York and other postwar American cities by a variety of artists and practitioners of space (E. A. Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” and its contemporary artistic rereadings, Allan Kaprow, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rebecca Solnit, etc.). Several features of the book are highlighted, notably its engagement with the interplay between discourses and site-oriented practices and its attempt to posit maps and mapping as a critical nexus around which some of the major actors of the artistic engagement with urban space in postwar America can be reconfigured and analyzed.
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Manolescu, M. (2018). Introduction. In: Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98663-0_1
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