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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schönle, Andreas (Author)
Other Authors: Fauci, Julia (Designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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