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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459696603321

Autore

Schönle Andreas

Titolo

Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / / Andreas Schönle ; Julia Fauci, design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

DeKalb, Illinois : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-5017-5677-X

1-60909-020-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Disciplina

720.947

Soggetti

Architecture and society - Russia - History

Architecture and society - Soviet Union - History

Architecture - Russia - Aesthetics - History

Architecture - Soviet Union - Aesthetics - History

City and town life - Russia - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.