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Picture a city. You may be bringing to mind a skyline of tall buildings, steel slices of train tracks, a swarm of buses, cars, and trucks, and a flurry of pedestrians hustling to work. But if you imagine a city through the eyes of artist Burhan Doganay, a completely different world opens up: a world of walls and insignia, of rough brickwork covered in half-ripped posters, graffiti, scribblings, messages, signs, and stickers. As this book shows, the wall was Doganays passion. Doganay (1929–2013) was born in Istanbul and settled in New York in 1964, where he moved within the art scene around Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Taking inspiration from the visual perception of texture, place, and memory, Doganay became famous for his wall fragments serial, "Urban Walls," in which he recorded house walls and facades from all over the world in a variety of media, using a wide range of
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Klaus Albrecht Schröder is an Austrian art historian and director of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria. Elsy Lahner is a curator of twentieth-century art and contemporary art at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.
