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Acclaimed British photographer Nicholas Sinclair here looks at five European cities - Paris, Istanbul, Palermo, Berlin, and Budapest - through their surface markings. Exploring the interaction between a city and its citizens as recorded by graffiti and advertising, Sinclair's photographs occupy a place between documentary and abstraction - a scrawled word or the scrap of a flyer are at once physical scars on a wall and marks hovering graphically on the picture plane. In this beautifully produced book, the second in a trilogy by Sinclair examining the surfaces of European cities, readers are invited to look at graffiti and other "unofficial" interventions anew: not as aggressive intrusions, but rather as part of an ongoing collaborative project to interpret the modern city.

Includes chronology (p. 154-155) and index.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 23 Jan.-18 Apr. 2010.

The evocative images found in this book document the ever-changing face of East Berlin and its people. The title of the book is photographer Nicholas Sinclairs adaptation of the musical term tritone, the musical intervention that creates a sense of tension and suspensea mood that is evident in the color combinations of these haunting images. Split into six different themes the photographs form a fascinating record of East Berlins vibrant, passionate, and scarred landscape.

Begun in 1878 by a prominent Danish family, the collection now housed in Copenhagen's renowned Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek includes exceptional Greek, Roman, and Etruscan sculptures, works by Danish Golden Age artists and by French artists such as Rodin and Carpeaux, and notable canvases and ceramics by Paul Gauguin. Published to coincide with an exhibition of works from the Glyptotek, this important volume illustrates some 200 artworks.Flemming Friborg is director of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Mary Beard teaches classics at Cambridge.

In 1697, Augustus II of Poland (later Frederick-Augustus I, Elector of Saxony) enlarged the collections established by his predecessors and in doing so, inaugurated the most brilliant era in the history of Dresden. Besides Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, the collection, now housed in the magnificent Zwinger Palace, is comprised of a large number of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, and outstanding works by Spanish, French and German painters. banks. The Zwinger Palace was badly affected by water rushing through its vaults and storerooms, threatening its priceless art collections. All the works from the ground floors of the palace were carried to safety and a selection of 50 of the most important masterpieces are being shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2003. These include works by Mantegna, Titian, Poussin, Watteau, Durer, Cranach, Velazquez and Murillo. The exhibition opens with a group of Bernardo Bellotto's views of Dresden, which reveal Augustus' magnificent princely city in all its glory. famous works. Essays trace the history of the collection as well as the history of one of Europe's most spectacular, architectural capitals.