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Empire of ruins American culture, photography, and the spectacle of destruction
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Empire of ruins : American culture, photography, and the spectacle of destruction/ Miles Orvell. |
| 개인저자 | Orvell, Miles,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource: illustrations (some color), color map. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Orvell, Miles. Empire of ruins New York : Oxford University Press, [2021] 9780190491604 |
| ISBN | 9780197523285 0197523285 0190491620 9780190491611 0190491612 9780190491628 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 요약 | "Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and filmmakers have responded to ruin and destruction, both real and imaginary, in an effort to make sense of the past and envision the future. Empire of Ruins explains why Americans in the nineteenth century yearned for the ruins of Rome and Egypt and how they portrayed a past as ancient and mysterious in the remains of Native American cultures. As the romance of ruins gave way to twentieth-century capitalism, older structures were demolished to make way for grander ones, a process interpreted by artists as a symptom of America's "creative destruction." In the late twentieth century, Americans began to inhabit a perpetual state of ruins, made visible by photographs of decaying inner cities, derelict factories and malls, and the waste lands of the mining industry. This interdisciplinary work focuses on how visual media have transformed disaster and decay into spectacles that compel our moral attention even as they balance horror and beauty. Looking to the future, Orvell considers the visual portrayal of climate ruins as we face the political and ethical responsibilities of our changing world. A wide-ranging work by an acclaimed urban, cultural, and photography scholar, Empire of Ruins offers a provocative and lavishly illustrated look at the American past, present, and future"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Ruins in art. Ruined buildings --Pictorial works. Ruined buildings --Social aspects --United States. Arts and society --United States. Arts and society Ruined buildings Ruins in art |
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