Ruins of Modernity
Andreas Schönle, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams, Julia Hell
ISBN: | 9780822390749 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Published: | 26 February, 2010 |
Format: | eBook |
Ruins of Modernity
Andreas Schönle, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams, Julia Hell
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized perspective. In the introduction, Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle discuss how European modernity emer
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