What You See Is What You Think
By: concept, texts, images: Markéta Kinterová ; editor: Hana Buddeus ; translation: Barbora Štefanová, Keith Jones
Contributors: Buddeus, Hana, editor; Štefanová, Barbora, translator; Jones, Keith, translator; Akademie múzických umění v Praze
Publisher: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU Press)
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9788073315290
Subjects: Czech Arts; Public spaces in art
Notes: The title appears only on page 4 of cover

"How do we see the cityscape and its periphery? Can we read these as a composition of volumes pasted over with brand labels and messages? The appearance of our cities is a mirror image of the state of our culture. People read and interpret the city based on a form of text written by the private sector and the state. What does our urban public space tell us? The present artist book responds to visual strategies deployed in public space with the intention to consolidate and entrench a repressive system of control, turning citizens into consumers." ; "The present book is published as the creative part of the doctoral thesis Oppositional Reading of Public Space, undertaken at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague."--from back cover

Includes bibliographical references