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City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy
Author(s) -
Loeffler Silvia
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1684
Subject(s) - flesh , graffiti , fantasy , aesthetics , art , dimension (graph theory) , human body , sociology , visual arts , literature , medicine , chemistry , food science , mathematics , pure mathematics , anatomy
Like a human body patterned with tattoos, any city's public spaces are commonly covered with inscriptions. Artist and educator Silvia Loeffler describes how subversive and unauthorised interventions, such as graffiti, can be perceived as urban expressions of a ‘sexscape’ or body made of flesh, which emanate ‘forms of longing and a dimension of the social’.