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9781848225558: Book of Ruins
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ISBN 10: 1848225555 ISBN 13: 9781848225558
Editorial: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2022

Sinopsis

Book of Ruins offers a survey – not encyclopedic, but substantial – of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed in the film Requiem for Detroit), it provides a perspective upon what the past has meant to different cultures at different times. Following an introductory essay, the book includes 70 entries, chronologically ordered, each including an attractive indicative image (or two), an introductory commentary by the authors, and the text itself. The texts come from designers (from Bernini through Piranesi to David Chipperfield) as well as other artists (John Piper), and from literary figures (Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, Hugo, and Hardy). It concludes by discussing what we do with ruins by way of preservation, conservation, adaptive reuse and appropriation, and contemporary loss and ruin, as illustrated by 9/11 and the Neues Museum and highlighting the continuing relevance of the ruin.

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Acerca del autor

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
David Leatherbarrow is Emeritus Professor Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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Editorial
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1848225555
ISBN 13 
9781848225558
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Editor
Hunt John Dixon, Leatherbarrow David
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