This is the catalogue of Tate Modern's inaugural exhibition being held in February 2001. The city provides the social, aesthetic, historical, and political framework within which to explore arts and ideas of the 20th century. The book focuses on nine cities from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe which have all at specific moments in the 20th century acted as cauldrons of innovations across visual culture. It examines a multitude of artistic practices including architecture, design, film, performance art, philosophy, poetry, literature, and music, as well as painting, photography, and sculpture.
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