Didier Ottinger, Quentin Bajac (Editors)
Dreamlands : Des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur.
Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2010. 9782844264435  319 pages.
Large-format softcover volume, with French flaps, measures approximately 9.5" x 11.25", is new.
The "Dreamlands," these self-contained, parallel worlds, have conditioned the artistic, architectural and contemporary urban imagination. From the Las Vegas of the 1950s and 60s to present day Dubai, they have contributed to profoundly changing our relationship to the world and its geography, to time and history, to notions of the original and the copy. These Dreamlands have contributed to blurring the borders between art and its old rivals: kitsch and entertainment.