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Ruins of modernity
Title
Ruins of modernity [electronic resource] / edited by Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle.
ISBN
9780822390749
0822390744
9780822344568 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822344564 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822344742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822344742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 511 p.) : ill.
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2009.
Other formats
Print version: Ruins of modernity Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
Politics, history, and culture : a series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-487) and index.
Contents
Authentic ruins : products of modernity / Andreas Huyssen
Air war and architecture / Anthony Vidler
Modernism and destruction in architecture / Vladimir Paperny
Ruins of the avant-garde : from Tatlin's tower to the paper architecture / Svetlana Boym
Modernity as a "destroyed anthill" : Tolstoy on history and the aesthetics of ruins / Andreas Schönle
Democratic destruction : ruins and emancipation in the American tradition / Russell A. Berman
The ruins of a republic : Czech modernism after Munich, 1938/39 / Jonathan Bolton
Layeredtime : ruins as shattered past, ruins as hope in Israeli and German landscapes and literature / Amir Eshel
Cities, citizenship, and other Joburg stories / Lucia Saks
Imperial ruin gazers, or why did Scipio weep? / Julia Hell
Hegel's philosophy of world history via Sebald's imaginary of ruins : a contrapuntal critique of the "new space" of modernity / Todd Samuel Presner
Vilcashuamán : telling stories in ruins / Jon Beasley-Murray
The monument in ruins / Daniel Herwitz
Simultaneous modernity : negotiations and resistances in urban India / Rahul Mehrotra
Ruins as models : displaying destruction in postwar Germany / Helmut Puff
"Memory traces of an abandoned set of futures" : industrial ruins in the postindustrial landscapes of Germany / Kerstin Barndt
Colonial melancholy and Fordist nostalgia : the ruinscapes of Namibia and Detroit / George Steinmetz
Dr. Strangelove's cabinet of wonder : sifting through the atomic ruins at the Nevada test site / Jonathan Veitch
Invisible at a glance : indigenous cultures of the past, ruins, archaeological sites, and our regimes of visibility / Gustavo Verdesio
Foundational ruins : the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime / Alexander Regier
The promise of a ruin : Gavrila Derzhavin's archaic modernity / Tatiana Smoliarova
Ruin cinema / Johannes von Moltke
The place of rubble in the Trümmerfilm / Eric Rentschler
Lost in time : Boris Mikhailov and his study of the Soviet / Helen Petrovsky.
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