Architecture of Oblivion : Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia /

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Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia--from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations--ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for levelin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schönle, Andreas (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fauci, Julia (Diseñador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
City and town life.
Architecture and society.
Architecture > Aesthetics.
Vie urbaine > Russie > Histoire.
Architecture > URSS > Esthetique > Histoire.
Architecture > Russie > Esthetique > Histoire.
Architecture et societe > URSS > Histoire.
Architecture et societe > Russie > Histoire.
City and town life > Russia > History.
Architecture > Soviet Union > Aesthetics > History.
Architecture > Russia > Aesthetics > History.
Architecture and society > Soviet Union > History.
Architecture and society > Russia > History.
Soviet Union.
Russia.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia--from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations--ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for leveling churches, post-Soviet Russia has only intensified the practice of massive destruction and reconstruction. Architecture of Oblivion examines the role of ruins in the development of Russia's historical consciousness from the eighteenth century to the present. Investigating the meaning and functions ruins have acquired in Russian culture, Schönle looks at ideological reasons for the current disregard for the value of ruins and historical buildings, in particular by political authorities, and reveals how ruins have often become a site of resistance to official ideology and an invitation to map out alternative visions of history and of statehood. An interdisciplinary study of Russia's response to ruins has never been attempted, although the topic of ruins has garnered considerable interest in Western Europe and in the U.S. This original work from a leading authority on the subject will appeal to historians of Russian culture and thought, literature and art scholars, and general readers interested in ruins.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (295 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501756771

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