Ruins /
Ruins /
- London : Cambridge, Mass. : Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press, 2011.
- 237 pages ; 24 cm.
- Documents of contemporary art .
- Documents of contemporary art series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index.
Modernity in ruins. -- The salon of 1767 / The ruin / The pleasures of limestone / A note on new ruins / The Arcades Project / Dust / Dust / Separation and restoration / Theses on the philosophy of history / Memoirs of the blind / Towards a new architecture / A tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey / Authentic ruins / Architecture dismembered / The anorexic ruins / Obscene homes / Leptis magna / Modernist ruins, filmic archaeologies / Dorit Margreiter / Is modernity our antiquity? / Sifting defunct modernity in search of something useful / It was what it was : modern ruins / The military-industrial sublime. -- A handful of dust / Bunker archaeology / The weight of time / Sound mirrors / The architecture of life / The light gleams an instant / Susan Hiller : The J. Street Project / Walid Raad/The Atlas Group / Drosscape. -- The crystal land / Invisible cities / Stumped / Imaging / The ruins of memory / Circling the centre / Lights out for the territory / Mike Nelson : 24A Orwell Street / Hinterland / Vera Lutter : spectres of negation / A victim and a viewer : some thoughts on anticipated ruins / The archivist of urban waste : Zoe Leonard, photographer as rag-picker / The future now. -- Fernsehturm / The dead town / The utopian past / Signs of life / An archaeology of the air / Modernologies / Waiting for the future / Denis Diderot Georg Simmel Adrian Stokes Rose Macaulay Walter Benjamin Georges Bataille Celeste Olalquiaga Susan Stewart Walter Benjamin Jacques Derrida Le Corbusier Robert Smithson Andreas Huyssen Anthony Vidler Jean Baudrillard Svetlana Boym Geoff Dyer Giuliana Bruno Barbara Clausen Mark Lewis Martin Herbert Gilda Williams J.G. Ballard Paul Virilio James Lingwood Tacita Dean Darian Leader Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith Jörg Heiser Mark Beasley Robert Smithson Italo Calvino Eric Schwab and Walead Beshty Patrick Keiller Rebecca Solnit Ralph Rugoff Iain Sinclair Richard Grayson Jeremy Millar Jonathan Crary Magali Arriola Tom McDonough Tacita Dean Martin Herbert Lytle Shaw J.J. Charlesworth Brian Dillion Brian Dillion Nina Power (1767) -- (1911) -- (1934) -- (1953) -- (1927-40) -- (1929) -- (1998) -- (1996) -- (1940) -- (1990) -- (1923) -- (1967) -- (2006) -- (1992) -- (1989) -- (2001) -- (2004) -- (2003) -- (2008) -- (2006) -- (2009) -- (2010) -- (2006) -- (1975) -- (2002) -- (1999) -- (2006) -- (2008) -- (2005) -- (2006) -- (1966) -- (1972) -- (2005) -- (2010) -- (2007) -- (2006) -- (1997) -- (2006) -- (2002) -- (2004) -- (2005) -- (2010) -- (2001) -- (2005) -- (2007) -- (2008) -- (2009) -- (2010) -- (2010).
The ruins of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary ruin in cultural discourse, aesthetics and artistic practice.
9780262516372 9780262516372: £17.95 0262516373 9780854881932 085488193X
2011011787
GBB162008 bnb
015813639 Uk
Ruins in art.
Arts, Modern--20th century.
Arts, Modern--21st century.
709.05 DIL
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index.
Modernity in ruins. -- The salon of 1767 / The ruin / The pleasures of limestone / A note on new ruins / The Arcades Project / Dust / Dust / Separation and restoration / Theses on the philosophy of history / Memoirs of the blind / Towards a new architecture / A tour of the monuments of Passaic, New Jersey / Authentic ruins / Architecture dismembered / The anorexic ruins / Obscene homes / Leptis magna / Modernist ruins, filmic archaeologies / Dorit Margreiter / Is modernity our antiquity? / Sifting defunct modernity in search of something useful / It was what it was : modern ruins / The military-industrial sublime. -- A handful of dust / Bunker archaeology / The weight of time / Sound mirrors / The architecture of life / The light gleams an instant / Susan Hiller : The J. Street Project / Walid Raad/The Atlas Group / Drosscape. -- The crystal land / Invisible cities / Stumped / Imaging / The ruins of memory / Circling the centre / Lights out for the territory / Mike Nelson : 24A Orwell Street / Hinterland / Vera Lutter : spectres of negation / A victim and a viewer : some thoughts on anticipated ruins / The archivist of urban waste : Zoe Leonard, photographer as rag-picker / The future now. -- Fernsehturm / The dead town / The utopian past / Signs of life / An archaeology of the air / Modernologies / Waiting for the future / Denis Diderot Georg Simmel Adrian Stokes Rose Macaulay Walter Benjamin Georges Bataille Celeste Olalquiaga Susan Stewart Walter Benjamin Jacques Derrida Le Corbusier Robert Smithson Andreas Huyssen Anthony Vidler Jean Baudrillard Svetlana Boym Geoff Dyer Giuliana Bruno Barbara Clausen Mark Lewis Martin Herbert Gilda Williams J.G. Ballard Paul Virilio James Lingwood Tacita Dean Darian Leader Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith Jörg Heiser Mark Beasley Robert Smithson Italo Calvino Eric Schwab and Walead Beshty Patrick Keiller Rebecca Solnit Ralph Rugoff Iain Sinclair Richard Grayson Jeremy Millar Jonathan Crary Magali Arriola Tom McDonough Tacita Dean Martin Herbert Lytle Shaw J.J. Charlesworth Brian Dillion Brian Dillion Nina Power (1767) -- (1911) -- (1934) -- (1953) -- (1927-40) -- (1929) -- (1998) -- (1996) -- (1940) -- (1990) -- (1923) -- (1967) -- (2006) -- (1992) -- (1989) -- (2001) -- (2004) -- (2003) -- (2008) -- (2006) -- (2009) -- (2010) -- (2006) -- (1975) -- (2002) -- (1999) -- (2006) -- (2008) -- (2005) -- (2006) -- (1966) -- (1972) -- (2005) -- (2010) -- (2007) -- (2006) -- (1997) -- (2006) -- (2002) -- (2004) -- (2005) -- (2010) -- (2001) -- (2005) -- (2007) -- (2008) -- (2009) -- (2010) -- (2010).
The ruins of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn toward site and situation, history and memory. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary ruin in cultural discourse, aesthetics and artistic practice.
9780262516372 9780262516372: £17.95 0262516373 9780854881932 085488193X
2011011787
GBB162008 bnb
015813639 Uk
Ruins in art.
Arts, Modern--20th century.
Arts, Modern--21st century.
709.05 DIL