Architecture of oblivion :
Schönle, Andreas.
Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle. - DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2011. - xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper) 0875806511 (clothbound : acidfree paper)
Architecture and society--History.--Russia
Architecture and society--History.--Soviet Union
Architecture--Aesthetics--History.--Russia
Architecture--Aesthetics--History.--Soviet Union
City and town life--History.--Russia
City and town life--History.--Soviet Union
Russia--History--Philosophy.
Soviet Union--History--Philosophy.
Russia--Antiquities.
Soviet Union--Antiquities.
NA2543.S6S36 2011
Architecture of oblivion : ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia / Andreas Schönle. - DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2011. - xii, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper) 0875806511 (clothbound : acidfree paper)
Architecture and society--History.--Russia
Architecture and society--History.--Soviet Union
Architecture--Aesthetics--History.--Russia
Architecture--Aesthetics--History.--Soviet Union
City and town life--History.--Russia
City and town life--History.--Soviet Union
Russia--History--Philosophy.
Soviet Union--History--Philosophy.
Russia--Antiquities.
Soviet Union--Antiquities.
NA2543.S6S36 2011