Architecture of oblivion
Subtitle: ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia
By: Andreas Schönle
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780875806518
Subjects: Aesthetics; Architecture; Architecture and society; Philosophy; Antiquities; City and town life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ruins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism; title: Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812; title: Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins; title: Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times; title: Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self; title: The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival; title: Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry; title: The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay.