Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City: The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture
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Benjamin Fraser., & Benjamin Fraser|AUTHOR. (2022). Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City: The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture . Vanderbilt University Press.

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This book investigates the social relationships implied in our urban modernity by concentrating on four cities that are in broad strokes representative of the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the Iberian peninsula. Each chapter introduces but moves well beyond an identifiable urban area in a given city, noting the cultural obsession implicit in its reconstruction as well as the role of obsession in its artistic representation of the urban environment. These areas are Barcelona's Eixample district, Madrid's Linear City, Lisbon's central Baixa area, and Bilbao's Seven Streets, or Zazpikaleak. The theme of obsession-which as explored is synonymous with the concept of partial madness-provides a point of departure for understanding the interconnection of both urbanistic and artistic discourses.
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