Title & Author:

What to do with ruins? : contemporary uses of ruination / edited by Joan Ramon Resina and Laura Menéndez Gorina.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.
©2025

Description:

v, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Modernity in Ruins -- The Resistance of Ruins / Alain Schnapp -- Contested and Detested Ruin: The Russianized afterlife of the Church of the Tithe in Kyiv / Andreas Schönle -- A Tale of Two (Ruined) Cities: Salona (Croatia) and Doclea (Montenegro) in Socialist Yugoslavia and Beyond / Daniel Baric -- From Colossus to Copper Particulates: Liberty Enlightening the World as Ruin / Jennifer Scappettone -- Rubble and Revolution: The Making of Worlds as Creative Destruction / Gastón Gordillo -- Rubble, History and Time / Francesc Torres -- Use, Preservation and Emotional Mapping of Ruinous Objects: A Reading of Francesc Torres's La campana hermètica (The Hermetic Bell) / Mercè Picornell -- The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace. Ruin of the Past - Place of the New / Christoph Wulf -- MacGuffin in Ruins: A More-Than-Representational Tale of Urban Exploration / Pablo Arboleda -- Amid the Living Ruins of the Cynic School / Costica Bradatan -- The Ruins of the University / Joan Ramon Resina.

Summary:

"The essays in this book explore the history of ruins in multiple cultures and periods. Authors study ways in which ruins can be appropriated, foregrounded and re-semanticized for political purposes. The links between the materiality of monuments and global processes of ruination are seldom explored, as are the historicity of rubble and its museumification. Ruins are predicated on the interplay between presence and absence; they remind us of caducity while conjuring up the spectrum of the completeness that would negate them. They can awaken the eeriness of the disintegrating modern city and serve as a metaphor for institutional decay. But they can also underpin proposals of restoration through salvage and reuse of the rubble." -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781836245384 hardcover
1836245386 hardcover
electronic book
9781836249399
183624939X
9781836249283
1836249284

Subject:

Excavations (Archaeology) Social aspects.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Fouilles (Archéologie)
Fouilles (Archéologie) Aspect social.
excavation (process)
Archaeology

Added entries:

Resina, Joan Ramon, editor.
Menéndez Gorina, Laura, editor.

Contemporary uses of ruination

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325421
Call No.: 325421
Copy: 1
Status: Available