Emancipating the Image: The Beijing Olympics, Regeneration, and the Power of Performance
“In China, what makes an image true is that it is good for people to see it.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971 The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. David Harvey argues that this transformation has tu...
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| Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Architecture_MPS |
| Online Access: | https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.amps.2013v2i1.001 |