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How ruins acquire aesthetic value : modern ruins, ruin porn, and the ruin tradition / Tanya Whitehouse.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.R85 W45 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitehouse, Tanya, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave pivot
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruins, Modern.
- Architecture--Aesthetics.
- Architecture.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 122 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Prologue: Ruins, and "ruin porn," in American cities
- chapter 2. Fascination with Ruins
- chapter 3. From blight to beauty: the controversial creation of the first US Industrial-Heritage Park
- Chapter 4. Detroit: new ruins and old problems
- chapter 5. Resolving our judgments: Understanding how ruins acquire and exhibit aesthetic value
- chapter 6. The ruin-industrial aesthetic: Ruins, and ruin-like environments, acquiring aesthetic value
- chapter 7. Assessing function and the ruin category
- chapter 8. Epilogue: Ruins rising from the ashes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3030030644
- 9783030030643
- OCLC:
- 1055263711
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