Cover art for The Art of the City
Published
Pushkin, October 2018
ISBN
9781782274483
Format
Softcover, 96 pages
Dimensions
16.5cm × 12cm

The Art of the City Rome, Florence, Venice by

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These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the city as a work of art in itself, and taken together these pieces act as a powerful suite expounding that notion.

A seminal work of psycho-geography, this collection has never been published together in English before.

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