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Author Comaroff, Joshua, author

Title Horror in architecture / Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing
Edition The reanimated edition
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations
Contents Doubles and Clones -- Exquisite Corpse -- Partially and Mostly Dead -- Reiteration and Reflexivity -- Incontinent Objects -- Trojan Horse -- Homunculism and Gigantism -- Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy -- Distortion and Disproportion -- Blobs -- Puppets -- Insurgent Natures -- Displacement
Summary "Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny, showing how their unsettling effects permeate the modern condition and the material world while deepening our fascination with the unreal"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2024)
Subject Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural.
Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Ong, Ker-Shing, author
LC no. 2023037507
ISBN 9781452970257
1452970254
9781452970240
1452970246