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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Atlas Europe square
  name:
    name part: Mettler, Yves
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm.
  abstract: If the built environment is a record of our modes of organization and the compromises we make in order to live together, then what are we to make of the plethora of Europe Squares, Europa Places, Places de l'Europe and Europaplatzes? Public spaces that connect numerous disparate towns and cities through a "supersite" called Europe, they may appear as avatars of an idea in crisis, as "eurocentric values" and the concept of Europe as a unified political space are attacked and eroded from all sides. Atlas Europe Square documents a body of work by Swiss artist Yves Mettler who, since 2003, has engaged in an ongoing mapping and documentation of these sites, along with a series of projects triangulating between particular squares, interrogating their differing architectural, environmental and public functions and what they tell us about the ideality of "Europe" and the (im)possibility of its concrete instantiation. Here this work is extended into reflections on the relationship between art and public space, site-specificity and the artist's own implication in the imaginary of Europe as he becomes enmeshed in a network of projects, funds and public bodies that seek to promote "European culture" through art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation, Atlas Europe Square contains texts by the artist alongside essays by Reza Negarestani, Teresa Pullano, Laurent Thevenot and Stephen Zepke, discussing Mettler's work.
  note: Yves Mettler.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Plazas
  subject:
    topic: City blocks
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    genre: In art
  classification: NA9070 .M48 2021
  classification: 700.411
  identifier: 1913029530
  identifier: 9781913029531
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190325
    record change date: 20220105155224.0
    record identifier: in00004367820