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A dialectical image is a charged constellation where past and present collide, revealing hidden historical tensions in a flash of recognition. [ref. Walter Benjamin: ‘Awakening’, Arcades, 462; n2a, 3]

Image: ©David Rowan, 2016 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 06.11.2024

Image: ©David Rowan, 2016 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 06.11.2024

Non-Representational Theory

David Patten | Digital (taken 24.09.2013)

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2013 Paradise Circus, Birmingham | Architects’ Journal & Argent Design Charrette

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Ally Standing | Digital

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Ally Standing & Ben Waddington | Digital

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Photographic print (1990)

The Bedford Collection, City of Birmingham Reference Library (1987)

Screenprint, 1987

35mm Slide (1989 & 1990)

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>https://brutalistconstructions.com/2014/06/29/birmingham-central-library-birmingham/<

Exhibition Guide | selected pages

Catalogue | selected pages