| Description |
xv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Politics, history, and culture : a series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan |
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Politics, history, and culture.
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| Contents |
Authentic ruins : products of modernity / Andreas Huyssen -- Air war and architecture / Anthony Vidler -- Modernism and destruction in architecture / Vladimir Paperny -- Ruins of the avant-garde : from Tatlin's tower to paper architecture / Svetlana Boym -- Modernity as a "destroyed anthill" : Tolstoy on history and the aesthetics of ruins / Andreas Schönle -- Democratic destruction : ruins and emancipation in the American tradition / Russell A. Berman -- The ruins of a republic : Czech modernism after Munich, 1938/39 / Jonathan Bolton -- Layered time : ruins as shattered past, ruins as hope in Israeli and German landscapes and literature / Amir Eshel -- Cities, citizenship, and other Joburg stories / Lucia Saks -- Imperial ruin gazers, or why did Scipio weep? / Julia Hell -- Hegel's philosophy of world history via Sebald's imaginary of ruins : a contrapuntal critique of the "new space" of modernity / Todd Samuel Presner -- Vilcashuamán : telling stories in ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray -- The monument in ruins / Daniel Herwitz -- Simultaneous modernity : negotiations and resistances in urban India / Rahul Mehrotra -- Ruins as models : displaying destruction in postwar Germany / Helmut Puff -- "Memory traces of an abandoned set of futures" : industrial ruins in the postindustrial landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt -- Colonial melancholy and Fordist nostalgia : the ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz -- Dr. Strangelove's cabinet of wonder : sifting through the atomic ruins at the Nevada test site / Jonathan Veitch -- Invisible at a glance : indigenous cultures of the past, ruins, archaeological sites, and our regimes of visibility / Gustavo Verdesio -- Foundational ruins : the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime / Alexander Regier -- The promise of a ruin : Gavrila Derzhavin's archaic modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova -- Ruin cinema / Johannes von Moltke -- The place of rubble in the Trümmerfilm / Eric Rentschler -- Lost in time : Boris Mikhailov and his study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovsky |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ruins, Modern.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Ruins in literature.
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Ruins in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Hell, Julia.
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Schönle, Andreas.
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| LC no. |
2009035117 |
| ISBN |
9780822344568 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822344564 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780822344742 paperback alkaline paper |
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0822344742 paperback alkaline paper |
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