Landscape and MemorySchama, Simon
9780701168964
In Ruins
Christopher Woodward
ISBN 10: 070116896X / 0-7011-6896-X
ISBN 13: 9780701168964
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN 13: 9780701168964
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 2001
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Review:"Woodward's meditations oscillate between bright fragments of insight and anecdote -- they shimmer in fugitive attitudes, then slide into freshly provocative patterns, scattered over the tides of time by this seasoned tourist to history's shoreline. IN RUINS is a picturesque hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir, lyric rhapsody, art history, and cultural criticism."
Cristina Monet, Los Angeles Times, 12/08/2002
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Book Description: VINTAGE, United Kingdom, 2001. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 190 x 136 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Do we see them as jig-saws and riddles or romantic evocations of the damage of Time, complete with crumbling stone and ivy? Do they stir us to remember past glory or warn against future arrogance? In this elegant, provocative book , the brilliant young art-historian Christopher Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the eighteenth century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens, artists and writers thrilled to Rome's poetry of decay, and in Paris the great chef Careme even served blancmanges shaped like classical ruins. He takes us from Troy and Pompei to Sicilian palaces and Nazi fantasies, and whirls us forward to modern times - to the shattered Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes, to Florida's Museum of Natural Phenomena, designed as a court-house dumped upside-down by a hurricane and to Chelsea Flower Show's 'Millennium Ruin'. Even the decay of an ordinary house can be as moving as the collapse of a temple - with its fascinating stories and characters, and its telling illustrations, In Ruins is full of strange delights and startling surprises, exploring the mysterious, melancholy charm of eternal fragments. Bookseller Inventory # AB99780701168964 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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