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Ruins and Fragments - Tales of Loss and Rediscovery (Hardcover)
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Ruins and Fragments - Tales of Loss and Rediscovery (Hardcover)
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For many of us, ruins are alluring, puzzling and endlessly
fascinating: this elegant book seeks to explore why. What is it
that makes us suspicious of works or histories that are too smooth,
too continuous? Is it that urban experience is inherently
discontinuous and fragmented, or that the only truths we can
believe are partial ones? Ruins and Fragments guides us through
ancient and modern worlds, sharing tales of loss, recovery and
rediscovery. Beginning with ancient fragments, this book recounts
how later history has recuperated, restored and exhibited them, and
even how ruins have been found in unlikely places - such as a
Hellenistic fragment from Pergamon located in remote
Nottinghamshire. It considers modernist architecture's fragmentary
effects, and how concrete made some buildings look prematurely
ruined. It also explores architecture that has worked with ruins,
from the Castelvecchio in Verona to the reconstruction of the Neues
Museum in Berlin. In literature, from T. S. Eliot to Laurence
Sterne, writers revel in fragments and create anew from literary
rubble.Some people deliberately construct or destroy to create
ruin, Gordon Matta-Clark attacking buildings, for example, or
dispossessed youth scribbling graffiti. Ultimately, destruction is
balanced by attempts at reconstruction. Whether focusing on ancient
or modern remnants, literature or the visual arts, Ruins and
Fragments is poetic without being sentimental. Far from 'ruin
lust', this book seeks to explore fragments without fetishizing
them. In doing so it offers new ways of understanding the history
of modernity, while delighting in our perception of the world as a
puzzle and the ways in which we can construct new forms of meaning.
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