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



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Autore: Schönle Andreas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / / Andreas Schönle ; Julia Fauci, design Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: DeKalb, Illinois : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2011
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
Disciplina: 720.947
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Russia History Philosophy
Soviet Union History Philosophy
Russia Antiquities
Soviet Union Antiquities
Soggetto non controllato: Russian ruins, post-Soviet Russian destruction and reconstruction, Russia's historical consciousness, Russian disregard for ruins and historical buildings
Persona (resp. second.): FauciJulia
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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Architecture of oblivion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-5677-X
1-60909-020-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814629703321
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