{"product_id":"9781848225558-book-of-ruins","title":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd - Book Of Ruins - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Book of Ruins offers a survey not encyclopedic but substantial of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers travellers and artists: painters film makers landscape architects and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city portrayed in the film Requiem for Detroit) it provides a perspective upon what the past has meant to different cultures at different times. Following an introductory essay the book includes 70 entries chronologically ordered each including an attractive indicative image (or two) an introductory commentary by the authors and the text itself. The texts come from designers (from Bernini through Piranesi to David Chipperfield) as well as other artists (John Piper) and from literary figures (Goethe Wordsworth Byron and Shelley Hugo and Hardy). It concludes by discussing what we do with ruins by way of preservation conservation adaptive reuse and appropriation and contemporary loss and ruin as illustrated by 9\/11 and the Neues Museum and highlighting the continuing relevance of the ruin.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Book Of Ruins\u003cbr\u003e\nBrand: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781848225558\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 288 Pages, 64 Illustrations, Color; 25 Illustrations, Black And White\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: History Of Architecture","brand":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49625868140849,"sku":"IN-G-9781848225558","price":42.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781848225558.jpg?v=1724941930","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781848225558-book-of-ruins","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}