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Living Ruins, Value Conflicts (Paperback)
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Living Ruins, Value Conflicts (Paperback)
Series: Heritage, Culture and Identity
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Using monuments and ruins by way of illustration, this fascinating
book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic
importance of Greek classical iconography for the Western world. It
examines how classical Greek monuments are simultaneously perceived
as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal
reference against which Western modernism is measured. The book
investigates the dialogue this double identity leads to, as well as
frequent clashes between ancient (but also later) monuments and
their modern urban or regional environment. Living Ruins, Value
Conflicts examines the complex historical process of monument
restoration and enhancement, and analyses the nexus of changing
perceptions, aesthetic visions and formal principles over the past
two centuries. The book shows the ways in which archaeology and
monumentality affect modern life, the modern aesthetic, our notions
of nationhood, of place, of self - and the limits to and
possibilities for national development imposed by the need to
ensure ruins are kept 'alive'.
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