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Book of Ruins (Hardcover)
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Book of Ruins (Hardcover)
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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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