Book of Ruins - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848225555 ISBN 13 : 9781848225558

Editeur : Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
David Leatherbarrow is Emeritus Professor Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848225555
• ISBN 13: 9781848225558
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Hunt John Dixon, Leatherbarrow David
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