The ruins lesson : meaning and material in western culture /

"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot....

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Stewart, Susan, 1952- (συγγραφέας.)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Θέματα:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Valuing ruin
  • Matter : this ruined earth
  • Marks : inscriptions and spolia
  • Mater : nymphs, virgins, and whores-on the ruin of women
  • Matrix : humanism and the rise of the ruins print
  • Model : the architectural imaginary
  • Mirrors : the voyages and fantasies of the ruins craze
  • The unfinished : on the nonfinality of certain works of art
  • Resisting ruin : the decay of monuments and the promises of language.