Irresistible Decay: Ruins ReclaimedRuins have fascinated and intrigued viewers for centuries. These include not only famous sites like Angkor Wat and the Temple of Olympian Zeus, but the remnants of natural disasters like the Lisbon earthquake. This book--the catalog for an exhibition held at the Getty Center--explores the allure of ruins and examines the roles that they play in modern cultural life. An incisive introduction laying out the general issues is followed by an essay discussing the nature of the fragment, a discussion of the Research Institute's vast holdings of item relating to ruins, a unique section uses juxtaposed color images, and quotations drawn from literary works to point out the longevity and prominence of the ruin as a metaphor. |
Contents
Traces of Loss | 25 |
Ruins and Responses | 41 |
Selected Bibliography | 100 |
Copyright | |
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Abbey aesthetic Albumen print ancient Angeles Angkor Anonymous Antiquités antiquity Antoine Lafréry archaeological architect architecture archive artists Baalbek Berlin British buildings Charles Merewether Charles-Louis Clérisseau circa Claire Lyons classical collections column contemporary culture Daniel Libeskind depicted Désert de Retz Désiré Charnay destruction documentation drawings earthquake eighteenth century engraving etchings European excavation exhibition Faiz Félix Bonfils fragments framed as ruins France French Getty Research Institute Giovanni Battista Piranesi Greece History of Art Humanities Ibid idem illustrated Institute's Irresistible Decay landscape Lebbeus Woods Lisbon London Mainz Martin Engelbrecht material memory ment Mexico modern monuments nature Nîmes Norton object Paris Pasquino past Patrick Poirier Paul Getty Museum photographs postcards present preserved Press remains representation Robert Smithson Roman Rome Ruins Reclaimed Salvatore Settis sculpture Speculum romanae magnificentiae stones Temple of Bacchus theater tion tomb trace trans Univ Urbain Basset visual void watercolor William Gell Woodcut York