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The Aesthetics of Ruins: Illustrated by the Author

By Robert Ginsberg

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2004
ISBN
9042016728, 9789042016729
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37578008 bytes)
Series
Value Inquiry Book Series 159
Pages
560\509
Time added
2018-06-17 10:20:42
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Description

This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature, and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.

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