Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle.

Main entry:

Schönle, Andreas.

Title & Author:

Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ruins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism -- Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812 -- Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins -- Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times -- Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self -- The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival -- Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry -- The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

9780875806518 (clothbound ; acid-free paper)
0875806511 (clothbound ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Architecture and society Russia History.
Architecture and society Soviet Union History.
Architecture Russia Aesthetics History.
Architecture Soviet Union Aesthetics History.
City and town life Russia History.
City and town life Soviet Union History.
Architecture et société Russie Histoire.
Architecture et société URSS Histoire.
Architecture Russie Esthétique Histoire.
Architecture URSS Esthétique Histoire.
Vie urbaine Russie Histoire.
Vie urbaine URSS Histoire.
Antiquities.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture and society.
City and town life.
Philosophy.
Architektur
Ästhetik
Ruine
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Ruiner i konsten.
Ruiner historia Ryssland.
Arkitektur och samhälle historia Ryssland.
Arkitektur estetik historia Ryssland.
Stadsliv historia Ryssland.
Russia History Philosophy.
Soviet Union History Philosophy.
Russia Antiquities.
Soviet Union Antiquities.
URSS Histoire Philosophie.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
Russland

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276581
Call No.: BIB 211212
Status: Available

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