Book of Ruins
Book of Ruins offers a survey - not encyclopedic, but substantial - of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers,…
Specifikacia Book of Ruins
Book of Ruins offers a survey - not encyclopedic, but substantial - of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed in the film Requiem for Detroit), it provides a perspective upon what the past has meant to different cultures at different times.Following an introductory essay, the book includes 70 entries, chronologically ordered, each including an attractive indicative image (or two), an introductory commentary by the authors, and the text itself. The texts come from designers (from Bernini through Piranesi to David Chipperfield) as
Book of Ruins
Architecture of Ruins
Empire of Ruins
Ruins Of Ravencroft
Ruins Of The Reich
Ruins of Modernity Hell Julia
Ruins of Chaos Burg Melissa
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Ruins
Ruins
Ghostly Ruins