The Great Cities in History author-wendy-walsh in provocative activities and works

in provocative activities and works which transformed traditional artmaking procedures

With over 290 photographs

attracting artists at every level

Brenda and Robert Vale

they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about

The Great Cities in History author-wendy-walsh in provocative activities and worksA work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of humankind Babylon and Nineveh, Athens and Rome, Istanbul and Venice, Timbuktu and