The Past In Ruins
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The Past In Ruins
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Author : David Gross
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Release Date : 1992
The Past In Ruins written by David Gross and has been published by Univ of Massachusetts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Civilization, Modern categories.
Acknowledgments p. xi Introduction p. 3 1 The Meaning of Tradition p. 8 2 Tradition Under Stress p. 20 3 Shaking the Foundations p. 40 4 Survivals and Fabrications p. 62 5 Rethinking Tradition p. 77 6 Reappropiating Tradition Through Its Traces p. 92 7 Subversive Genealogy p. 107 8 The Tactics of Tradition p. 120 9 Conclusion p. 131 Notes p. 137 Bibliography p. 159 Index p. 171.
Reviewing The Past
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Author : Zoltán Somhegyi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Reviewing The Past written by Zoltán Somhegyi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Philosophy categories.
Though constantly in decay, ruins continue to fascinate the observer. Their still-standing survival is a loud affirmation of their presence, in which we can admire the struggle against the power of Nature aesthetically manifested during the decay. This volume takes a thematic approach to examining the aesthetics of ruins. It looks at the general aspects of architectural decay and its classical forms of admiration and then turns towards ruins from both classical and contemporary periods, from both Western and non-Western areas, and with examples from “high art” as well as popular culture. Combining the methodologies of art history, aesthetics and cultural history, this book opens up new ways of looking at the phenomenon of ruins.
The Conquest Of Ruins
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Author : Julia Hell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-03-19
The Conquest Of Ruins written by Julia Hell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with History categories.
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
The Ruins Of Our Past
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Author : Sebastian Shepherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-14
The Ruins Of Our Past written by Sebastian Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-14 with categories.
If you could save a single moment of your life, what would you do? Paul is dying. Trapped beneath the ice on Christmas Eve, he revisits the events of his past and the ghosts of those who haunt him. As a Navy Corpsman in Operation Iraqi Freedom, he saved lives, but the only one who can rescue him now is a twisted Santa Claus, Paul's guide through the spiritual realm, who offers him the greatest gift he'll ever receive: an opportunity to change a single moment of his life! To earn this gift, they must first do battle with the monsters of Paul's imagination and hunt down the lost keys that will open the doors to days gone by. Will Paul break free from the dead in order to live? Or will he choose to join them down in the murky depths?
The Aesthetics Of Ruins
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Author : Robert Ginsberg
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
The Aesthetics Of Ruins written by Robert Ginsberg and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.
The Re Use Of Urban Ruins
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Author : Hanna Katharina Göbel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
The Re Use Of Urban Ruins written by Hanna Katharina Göbel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Social Science categories.
How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk and the Café Moskau in order to make visible an interdisciplinary regime of design experts who have developed a professional sensorium turning the built memory of the city into an object of aesthetic inquiry.
Among The Ruins
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Author : Christian C. Sahner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Among The Ruins written by Christian C. Sahner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
An accessible history of Syria's cultural and religious past documents such issues as the role of Christianity in society, the emergence of the Ba'ath party, and the arrival of Islam, and traces the origins of the current civil war.
Rising From The Ruins
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Author : Bruce C. Swaffield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
Rising From The Ruins written by Bruce C. Swaffield and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the “golden age” of man and a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century revival of a unique subgenre of landscape poetry dealing with ruins of the ancient world. Few poems about the ruins had been written since Antiquités de Rome in 1558 by Joachim Du Bellay. Dyer was one of first neoclassic poets to return to the decaying stones of a past society as a source of poetic inspiration and imagination. He views the relics as monuments of grandeur and greatness, but also of impending death and destruction. While following most of the rules and standards of neoclassicism—that of imitating nature and giving pleasure to a reader—Dyer also includes his personal reactions and emotions in The Ruins of Rome. The work is composed from the position of a poet who serves as interpreter and translator of the subject, a primary characteristic of “prospect” poetry in the eighteenth century. Numerous other writers quickly followed Dyer’s example, including George Keate, William Whitehead and William Parsons. The tendency by these poets to write about the ruins of Rome from a subjective point of view was one of the strongest themes in what Northrop Frye has called the “Age of Sensibility.” Although the renewed interest in Roman ruins lasted well into the nineteenth century, influencing Romantic poets from Lord Byron to William Wordsworth, the evolution of this type of verse was a gradual process: it originated with Du Bellay’s poem, continued through seventeenth-century paintings by Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa (along with the later art of Piranesi and Pannini), and reached maturity with the poetic interest in the imagination in the eighteenth century. All of these factors, especially the tendency of poets to record their subjective feelings and insights concerning the ruins, are elements that proved to be instrumental in the eventual development of Romanticism.
Sham Ruins
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Author : Brian Willems
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Sham Ruins written by Brian Willems and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used to both uncover old truths and invent new ones. Along with architecture, work by Ivan Vladislavić, Tom Stoppard, Alain Mabanckou, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Michael Haneke, and Sturtevant is used to develop this thesis, as well as artifacts such as pre-torn jeans, fake histories, and broken screen apps. Using these examples, one of the key questions the book raises is: what is it that sham ruins ruin? In other words, if real ruins are ruins of what they actually are, then sham ruins should be considered ruins of what they are not. Thus sham ruins are about imposing new meaning where such meaning does not and should not exist. They also can show how things we think are functioning well are actually already broken. Sham ruins do this, and much more, by being lies, ruses, and embarrassments. This is what gives them the power with which we can think about objects in new, unintended ways.
Gains Out Of Ruins
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Author : Pastor Mike Olawale
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-02
Gains Out Of Ruins written by Pastor Mike Olawale and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with Religion categories.
Mission declared: It has been said severally by numerous commentators that life without a defined purpose is a wasted life. In all human adventures, there are always a lot of unpredictable events that come along their paths and no one can be sure of their eventualities. Many of these events can bring joy, success or advancement, and other effects can bring untold catastrophic consequences that have sent many people into pits and ruins. Many people have suffered failure upon failures,pains, and personal losses in every facet of life but through the grace of God and their purposeful determination, they are able to bounce back into greater accomplishment while others are not so fortunate to overcome their various problems. Nobody could ever imagine that in this twentieth century the whole world could be shut down, the global economy and commerce grind to halt by Covid19 pandemic. Millions of lives were lost, many families went through untold hardships, disruptions and ruins. No one could ever have imagined such a magnitude of events would happen but it did. Our world has not been the same through this singular devastation and global ruins and at the time of writing this book, nations are gradually coming out of the ruins of the deadly pandemic into a “new normal”.