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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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2020.
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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.
