02333cam a22004094a 4500 17920 17920 110121s2011 ilua b 001 0 eng 9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper) 0875806511 (clothbound : acidfree paper) NA2543.S6S36 2011 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. 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. City and town life Soviet Union History. Russia History Philosophy. Soviet Union History Philosophy. Russia Antiquities. Soviet Union Antiquities. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC GEN 2016-11-30 Donation(BFA) 0 NA2543.S6S36 2011 28954 2016-11-30 2016-11-30 BOOKS