Titre et auteur:

Ruins / edited by Brian Dillon.

Publication:

London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.
©2011

Description:

237 pages ; 21 cm.

Série(s):

Documents of contemporary art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index.
Modernity in ruins. -- The salon of 1767 / Denis Diderot (1767) -- The ruin / Georg Simmel (1911) -- The pleasures of limestone / Adrian Stokes (1934) -- A note on new ruins / Rose Macaulay (1953) -- The Arcades Project / Walter Benjamin (1927-40) -- Dust / Georges Bataille (1929) -- Dust / Celeste Olalquiaga (1998) -- Separation and restoration / Susan Stewart (1996) -- Theses on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin (1940) -- Memoirs of the blind / Jacques Derrida (1990) -- Towards a new architecture / Le Corbusier (1923) -- A tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey / Robert Smithson (1967) -- Authentic ruins / Andreas Huyssen (2006) -- Architecture dismembered / Anthony Vidler (1992) -- The anorexic ruins / Jean Baudrillard (1989) -- Obscene homes / Svetlana Boym (2001) -- Leptis magna / Geoff Dyer (2004) -- Modernist ruins, filmic archaeologies / Giuliana Bruno (2003) -- Dorit Margreiter / Barbara Clausen (2008) -- Is modernity our antiquity? / Mark Lewis (2006) -- Sifting defunct modernity in search of something useful / Martin Herbert (2009) -- It was what it was : modern ruins / Gilda Williams (2010) -- The military-industrial sublime. -- A handful of dust / J.G. Ballard (2006) -- Bunker archaeology / Paul Virilio (1975) -- The weight of time / James Lingwood (2002) -- Sound mirrors / Tacita Dean (1999) -- The architecture of life / Darian Leader (2006) -- The light gleams an instant / Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith (2008) -- Susan Hiller : The J. Street Project / Jörg Heiser (2005) -- Walid Raad/The Atlas Group / Mark Beasley (2006) -- Drosscape. -- The crystal land / Robert Smithson (1966) -- Invisible cities / Italo Calvino (1972) -- Stumped / Eric Schwab and Walead Beshty (2005) -- Imaging / Patrick Keiller (2010) -- The ruins of memory / Rebecca Solnit (2007) -- Circling the centre / Ralph Rugoff (2006) -- Lights out for the territory / Iain Sinclair (1997) -- Mike Nelson : 24A Orwell Street / Richard Grayson (2006) -- Hinterland / Jeremy Millar (2002) -- Vera Lutter : spectres of negation / Jonathan Crary (2004) -- A victim and a viewer : some thoughts on anticipated ruins / Magali Arriola (2005) -- The archivist of urban waste : Zoe Leonard, photographer as rag-picker / Tom McDonough (2010) -- The future now. -- Fernsehturm / Tacita Dean (2001) -- The dead town / Martin Herbert (2005) -- The utopian past / Lytle Shaw (2007) -- Signs of life / J.J. Charlesworth (2008) -- An archaeology of the air / Brian Dillion (2009) -- Modernologies / Brian Dillion (2010) -- Waiting for the future / Nina Power (2010).

Résumé:

Ruins is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

ISBN:

9780262516372 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262516373 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780854881932
085488193X

Sujet:

Ruins in art.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts, Modern 21st century.
Arts, Modern.
Ruines dans l'art.
Arts 20e siècle.
Arts 21e siècle.
Art and Design.
Ruine
Kunst
Ruins in literature.
Aesthetics.
Ruiner i konsten.

Classification/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays.
Essais.

Vedettes secondaires:

Dillon, Brian, 1969- editor.
Documents of contemporary art series.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 277332
Cote: BIB 212122
Statut: Disponible