'Aesthetics from below'. Paving stones and asphalt in modern art

自19世纪世纪以来，艺术家和理论家们一直致力于克服生活与艺术之间的边界。街道是这一发展的背景之一，在艺术史上几乎没有得到承认，尽管它对现代艺术发挥了重要作用。本书探讨了与城市空间有关的艺术作品。它分析了图像是如何被塑造成具有社会和政治价值的表面的，使用诸如城市街道表面的主题，道路建设技术转化为艺术或铺路石和沥青的使用等艺术关注。作者研究了表现形式和物品，包括由铺路和沥青制成的艺术作品以及革命事件的版画。她问生活和艺术如何在印象派和构成主义绘画以及前卫照片和电影的表面上交织在一起。

Since 19th century, artists and theorists worked on overcoming the border between life and art. The street is among the settings of this development, hardly recognized in art history, although it played an important role for modern art. The book examines works of art dealing with urban spaces. It analyses how images were modelled as surfaces with social and political value, using such artistic concerns as the subject of the surface of urban streets, the transfer of road construction techniques into art or the use of paving stones and asphalt. The author studies representations and objects, including art works made of paving and asphalt as well as prints from revolutionary events. And she asks how life and art could be intertwined both on the surfaces of impressionist and constructivist paintings and avant-garde photographs and films.