Ruins of Modernity

Book Overview

Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized perspective. In the introduction, Julia Hell and Andreas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344742
• ISBN13: 9780822344742
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"