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Book of Ruins - Hardcover

Hunt, John Dixon; Leatherbarrow, David

 
9781848225558: Book of Ruins
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848225555 ISBN 13: 9781848225558
Verlag: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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), the book 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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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Verlag
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848225555
ISBN 13 
9781848225558
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
285
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