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Vocabulary
spoken into existence
Does "a part of the city is spoken into existence" in the last line of the following context mean
1. "in such artworks it is talked about a part of the city"
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2. "in such artworks a part of the city is brought into existence by talking about it"?
The chapter looks at the relationship of urban walking to art from three points of view, then. First, in relation to the British artist Richard Wentworth whose practice – in terms of its immediate relevance here – encompasses both alternative ‘tour guides’ around parts of central London and ‘street photographs’ taken on his personal walks round cities. The latter are startling, above all, for the way they suggest the presence of discrete pockets of urban activity without imaging people, whilst the former amount to performances to small groups of people in which a part of the city is effectively spoken into existence.
1. "in such artworks it is talked about a part of the city"
or
2. "in such artworks a part of the city is brought into existence by talking about it"?
The chapter looks at the relationship of urban walking to art from three points of view, then. First, in relation to the British artist Richard Wentworth whose practice – in terms of its immediate relevance here – encompasses both alternative ‘tour guides’ around parts of central London and ‘street photographs’ taken on his personal walks round cities. The latter are startling, above all, for the way they suggest the presence of discrete pockets of urban activity without imaging people, whilst the former amount to performances to small groups of people in which a part of the city is effectively spoken into existence.
Top answer
Wentworth's alternative tour guides around the city are essentially street performances to small groups of passersby, in which the part of the city in which they take place is presented in a novel and new light, so that the audience sees it, for the first time in their lives, from this new point of view.
- Wentworth's alternative tour guides around the city are essentially street performances to small groups of passersby, in which the part of the city in which they take place is presented in a novel and new light, so that the audience sees it, for the first time in their lives, from this new point of view.
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Wentworth's alternative tour guides around the city are essentially street performances to small groups of passersby, in which the part of the city in which they take place is presented in a novel and new light, so that the audience sees it, for the first time in their lives, from this new point of view.
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