Ruins

ed. by Brian Dillon

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Editor(s)

Brian Dillon

Publication, year

London ; Cambridge, Mass. : Whitechapel Gallery : The Mit Press, 2011

Scope

240 Pages, 21 cm.

ISBN

9780262516372

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This anthology provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary ruin in cultural discourse, aesthetics, and artistic practice. It examines the development of ruin aesthetics from the early modern era to the present; the ruin as a privileged emblem of modernity’s decline; the relic as a portal onto the political history of the recent past; the destruction and decline of cities and landscapes, with the emergence of "non-places" and “drosscape”; the symbolism of the entropic and decayed in critical environmentalism; and the confusing temporalities of the ruin in recent art--its involution of timescales and perspectives as it addresses not just the past but the future.

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Location

Cabinet 19 - 4: Architectuur en onbehagen

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index