Title & Author:

Ruins of modernity / edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle.

Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Politics, history, and culture : a series from the international institute at the university of michigan

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-487) and index.
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, 1938-1939 / 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.

Summary:

Looking at ruins, writing about them & representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about & representations of ruins from a contextualised perspective.

Resources:
E-book - Full text from EBL
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ISBN:

9780822344568 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822344564 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822344742 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822344742 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822390749
0822390744

Subject:

Bibel Philemonbrief
Ruins, Modern.
Civilization, Modern 20th century.
Civilization, Modern 21st century.
Ruins in literature.
Ruins in motion pictures.
Ruines modernes.
Civilisation 20e siècle.
Civilisation 21e siècle.
Ruines dans la littérature.
Ruines au cinéma.
Civilization, Modern.
Ruine
Literatur
littérature ruine 20e s. 21e s. (début) études diverses.
culture ruine sociologie 20e s. 21e s. (début) études diverses.
ruine 20e s. 21e s. (début) études diverses.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Hell, Julia.
Schönle, Andreas.
Politics, history, and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266399
Call No.: BIB 198188
Status: Available