Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle.

By: Schönle, AndreasMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2011Description: xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper); 0875806511 (clothbound : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Architecture and society -- Russia -- History | Architecture and society -- Soviet Union -- History | Architecture -- Russia -- Aesthetics -- History | Architecture -- Soviet Union -- Aesthetics -- History | City and town life -- Russia -- History | City and town life -- Soviet Union -- History | Russia -- History -- Philosophy | Soviet Union -- History -- Philosophy | Russia -- Antiquities | Soviet Union -- AntiquitiesLOC classification: NA2543.S6S36 2011
Contents:
Ruins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism -- Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812 -- Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins -- Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times -- Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self -- The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival -- Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry -- The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ruins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism -- Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812 -- Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins -- Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times -- Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self -- The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival -- Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry -- The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay.

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