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Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle.
Publication details: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2011.Description: xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780875806518 :
- 0875806511 :
- 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 -- Antiquities
- NA2543.S6 S36 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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NA 2543 .S6 S36 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5040163 |
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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