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Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
511

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Subjects

Modern Ruins, Ruins in literature, Modern Civilization, Ruins in motion pictures, Civilization, modern, 20th century, Civilization, modern, 21st century

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20th century, 21st century
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Cover of: Ruins of Modernity
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2010, Duke University Press
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Cover of: Ruins of Modernity
Ruins of Modernity
2010, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Ruins of modernity
Ruins of modernity
2008, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Ruins of modernity
Ruins of modernity
2008, Duke University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham [NC]
Series
Politics, history, and culture : a series from the international institute at the university of michigan, Politics, history, and culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
909.83
Library of Congress
CB425 .R85 2009, CB425 .R85 2010, CB425.R85 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
511

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OL24461899M
Internet Archive
ruinsofmodernity0000unse
ISBN 13
9780822344568, 9780822344742
LCCN
2009035117
OCLC/WorldCat
319499261

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